The Mathematics departments of the University of Utah and Brigham Young University along with the National Science Foundation are sponsoring the Twenty-fifth Semiannual Wasatch Topology Conference to be held August 11 to August 13, 2007 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The conference is being organized by Mladen Bestvina, Ken Bromberg, Greg Conner and Kevin Wortman.
Matt Bainbridge, U of Chicago
Billiards in L-shaped tables with
barriers
Nathan
Broaddus, U of Chicago
Irreducible Sp-representations and
distortion in the mapping class group
Kai-Uwe
Bux, Virginia
Finitenes properties of arithmetic groups
and some relatives
Jim Conant,
UT
Knoxville
The topology of sets of Boolean formulae
W.
Patrick Hooper, Northwestern
An infinite surface with the lattice
property and applications
Dan Margalit, U
of Utah
Cohomological dimension of the Torelli
group
Jessica
Purcell, BYU
Volume bounds from knot and link diagrams
Anne
Thomas, U of Chicago
Lattices for Fuchsian buildings and
Platonic complexes
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 on the campus of the University of Utah. Participants should contact the Guest House directly to reserve a room:
http://www.guesthouse.utah.edu
801-587-1000
1-888-416-4075
Past conferences: