The Mathematics departments of the University of Utah and Brigham Young University along with the National Science Foundation are sponsoring the 29th Semiannual Wasatch Topology Conference to be held August 15th to August 17th, 2011 in Kimball Junction, Utah.
The conference is being organized by Mladen Bestvina, Ken Bromberg, Greg Conner, Jessica Purcell, Eric Swenson and Kevin Wortman.
Ian
Biringer, Yale
Growth
of Betti numbers in higher rank locally symmetric spaces
Jeff
Brock, Brown
The
Weil-Petersson metric and the geometry of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Dick
Canary, Michigan
Dynamics
on character varieties
Indira
Chatterji, Ohio State and Université d'Orléans
Distortion and bounded
cohomology for Lie groups
Matt
Clay, Allegheny
The
geometry of right-angled Artin subgroups of the mapping class group
Guillaume Dreyer, USC
Length
functions for Hitchin representations
Steve Kerckhoff, Stanford
Complex
projective surfaces bounding 3-manifolds
Joseph
Maher, CUNY Staten Island
Exponential
decay in the mapping class group
Jing
Tao, Utah
Geodesics
in Teichmuller space equipped with Thurston's Lipschitz metric
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 Newpark Resort in Kimball Junction. Participants should contact the organizers to reserve a room.
Room
rates are:
Deluxe room: $89/night
Luxury suite: $119/night