CORNELL

TOPOLOGY

FESTIVAL

May 3-5, 2002

You are cordially invited to attend the 40th Annual Cornell Topology Festival. There will be seven one-hour invited talks, a table for preprints*, and much opportunity for conversation. The festivities will begin on Friday, May 3, with tea at 3:30 PM followed by the first talk at 4:30 PM and a banquet on Friday evening. The festival will end about noon on Sunday. There will be a registration fee of $25.00, to be paid at the Festival. (Graduate students are exempt.)

The speakers are:

MLADEN BESTVINA (University of Utah)
MEASURED LAMINATIONS AND GROUP THEORY
DANIEL BISS (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
THE COMBINATORICS OF SMOOTH MANIFOLDS: ORIENTED MATROIDS IN TOPOLOGY
STEVE GERSTEN (University of Utah)
ISOPERIMETRIC INEQUALITIES FOR NILPOTENT GROUPS
DUSA McDUFF (SUNY at Stony Brook)
THE TOPOLOGY OF GROUPS OF SYMPLECTOMORPHISMS
YAIR MINSKY (SUNY at Stony Brook)
ON THURSTON'S ENDING LAMINATION CONJECTURE
PETER OZSVATH (Princeton University)
HOLOMORPHIC DISKS AND LOW-DIMENSIONAL TOPOLOGY
GUOLIANG YU (Vanderbilt University)
THE NOVIKOV CONJECTURE AND GEOMETRY OF GROUPS

Click here for a detailed schedule.
Click here for abstracts of the talks.
Click here for information about the banquet.
Please respond via the response form or by email to festival@math.cornell.edu.
Click here for information about housing.
Click here for zoomable maps of Ithaca and the Cornell Campus. Talks will take place in Malott Hall, located at the corner of Tower Rd. and Garden Ave. To find it on the campus map, start at the Southeast corner of the Arts Quad and go one block east.

*A Klein bottle donated by Acme Klein bottles will be awarded to a randomly selected contributor to the preprint table.

Further information will be posted as it becomes available. Questions and comments may be addressed to festival@math.cornell.edu.

Here are some photos from the 2001 Topology Festival.

Here is a list of speakers at previous festivals, going back to 1984.

Last modified: Thu Apr 4 09:58:24 EST 2002