Summer 2006 Wasatch Topology Conference

The Mathematics departments of the University of Utah and Brigham Young University along with the National Science Foundation are sponsoring the Twenty-third Semiannual Wasatch Topology Conference to be held August 1 to August 4, 2006 in Park City, Utah.

The conference is being organized by Mladen Bestvina, Ken Bromberg and Greg Conner.

Speakers                                     

Peter Brinkmann, CUNY
    Algorithmically improving train tracks

Tullia Dymarz, U of Chicago
    Tukia's theorem and boundary theory for solvable groups

Anna Lenzhen, UIC
    Teichmuller geodesics that do not have a limit   in PMF

Lars Louder, U of UT
    Accessibility of Limit Groups

Soren Galatius, Stanford
    Stable homology of automorphisms of free groups

Howard Masur, UIC
    Ergodic theory of translation surfaces

Alexandra Pettet, U of Chicago
    Cohomology of some subgroups of the automorphism groups of the free group

Ben Schmidt, U of MI
    Blocking light in compact Riemannian manifolds

Juan Souto, U of Chicago
    Heegard splittings and minimal surfaces

Kevin Wortman, Yale
    A finitely-presented solvable group with a small quasi-isometry group
    Unipotent flows on moduli space for genus 2

Schedule

If you are interested in attending the conference please contact the organizers at wtc@math.utah.edu. Some funding is available for graduate students and post-docs. Those interested should also contact the organizers at wtc@math.utah.edu.

The conference will be held at the Treasure Mountain Inn on Main St. in downtown Park City. Participants should contact the Inn directly to reserve a room:

Thea Leonard
www.treasuremountaininn.com
435-655-4505
800-344-2460

Room rates are:

Nights of July 31 - August 3
Studio/1BR units : $75/night

Night of August 4
Studio: $105/night
1BR: $125/night



Transportation from the Salt Lake Airport to Park City

Past Conferences:

Winter 2005
Spring 2005
Winter 2004
Spring 2004