CORNELL
TOPOLOGY
FESTIVAL
May 7-9, 1999
The 37th
Annual Cornell Topology Festival was held May 7-9, 1999. There were eight one-hour invited talks,
a table for preprints*
and many interesting conversations.
The festivities began on Friday, May
7 with tea at 3:45 PM followed by the first talk at 4:30 PM and a banquet
on Friday evening. The festival ended about 1 PM on Sunday. For
a detailed schedule, click here. Also available
are abstracts of
the talks
- STEVE BOYER (University of Quebec)
A PROOF OF THE FINITE FILLING CONJECTURE
- ROBERT EDWARDS (University of California at Los Angeles)
CANTOR GROUPS, THEIR CLASSIFYING SPACES, AND THEIR ACTIONS ON ENR'S
- YAKOV ELIASHBERG (Stanford University)
INTRODUCTION TO SYMPLECTIC FIELD THEORY
- MISHA KAPOVICH (University of Utah)
GROUP ACTIONS ON COARSE POINCARE DUALITY SPACES
- PETER SHALEN (University of Illinois at Chicago)
BOUNDARY SLOPES OF KNOTS, AND 3-MANIFOLDS WITH CYCLIC FUNDAMENTAL GROUP
- DANI WISE (Cornell
University)
SUBGROUP SEPARABILITY OF THE FIGURE 8 KNOT
- CHRIS WOODWARD (Rutgers University)
EIGENVALUE INEQUALITIES AND QUANTUM COHOMOLOGY OF THE GRASSMANNIAN
- WOLFGANG ZILLER (University of Pennsylvania)
CURVATURE AND SYMMETRY OF MILNOR SPHERES
*An ACME Klein bottle was awarded to a randomly selected contributor to the
preprint table.
Questions and comments may be addressed to: festival@math.cornell.edu