Cornell Topology Festival

May 7-9, 1999

All events except the dinner and picnic will take place in Goldwin Smith Hall. Registration is in Room 156, and the talks will take place in Kaufmann Auditorium.


Friday, May 7
3:30-4:30 Registration (Room 156 Goldwin Smith) and refreshments
   
4:30-5:30   
 
 

YAKOV ELIASHBERG

"Introduction to Symplectic Field Theory"

   
   
5:45-6:15 Electronic journal demonstration (NY J. Math)
7:00 Banquet at Old Port Harbor restaurant, 702 W. Buffalo, Ithaca
   
Saturday, May 8
8:15-9:00 Coffee, bagels, donuts, orange juice, etc.
   
9:00-10:00
 
 

PETER SHALEN

"Boundary slopes of knots, and 3-manifolds with cyclic fundamental group"

   
10:20-11:20
 

CHRIS WOODWARD

"Eigenvalue inequalities and quantum cohomology of the grassmannian"

   
 11:40-12:40

 WOLFGANG ZILLER

"Curvature and symmetry of Milnor spheres"

12:40-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:00

STEVE BOYER

"A proof of the finite filling conjecture"

   
 3:30-4:30

MISHA KAPOVICH

"Group actions on coarse Poincare duality spaces"

   
5:30 Picnic at Stewart Park, Large Pavilion
   
Sunday, May 9
8:15-9:30 Coffee, bagels, donuts, orange juice, etc.
   
9:30-10:30
 

DANI WISE

"Subgroup separability of the figure 8 knot"

   
11:00-12:00 
 

ROBERT EDWARDS

"Cantor groups, their classifying spaces, and their actions on ENR's"

   
 1:00-4:00  Hike at Taughanock Falls state park