Winter
2005 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-second Semiannual Wasatch Topology Conference to be held
December 14
to December 16, 2005 in Park City Utah.
The conference is
being organized by Mladen Bestvina, Ken Bromberg and
Greg Conner.
Speakers
Daryl Cooper,
UCSB
Covers of 3-manifolds and group
determinants
Cameron
Gordon, University of Texas
Toroidal Dehn fillings
Cyril Lecuire,
CRM Barcelona
Sequences of Kleinian groups
Misha Kapovich,
UC Davis
Real projective Gromov-Thurston examples
Steve Kerckhoff, Stanford
Degenerating geometric structures via
projective geometry
Bruce Kleiner, Yale
Higher dimensional analogs of Gromov
hyperbolicity
Ben McReynolds,
University of Texas
Constructing isospectral manifolds
Saul Schleimer,
Rutgers, New Brunswick
A metric survey of curve complexes
Jennifer Schultens,
UC Davis
Destabilizing amalgamated Heegard
splittings
Karen Vogtmann,
Cornell
Tethers and homology stability
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:
