Schedule of Activities
Thursday, May 18, 2006
| 3:00 PM | Registration in the 3rd floor foyer of Malott Hall |
| 4:30 PM | Maurice Herlihy, Brown University Topological Methods in Distributed and Concurrent Computing |
| 6:30 PM | Banquet at ZaZa's, 622 Cascadilla Street |
Friday, May 19, 2006
| 8:15 AM | Refreshments |
| 9:00 AM | Jesper Grodal, University of Chicago Workshop on Algebraic Topology |
| 10:15 AM | Lee Mosher, Rutgers University Axes in Outer Space |
| 11:30 AM | Tara Holm, Connecticut and Cornell University Orbifold Cohomology of Abelian Symplectic Reductions |
| 12:30 PM | Lunch |
| 2:30 PM | Gunnar Carlsson, Stanford University Workshop on Algebraic Topology |
| 4:00 PM | Soren Galatius, Stanford University Stable Homology of Automorphisms of Free Groups |
| 5:00 PM | Dinner on the town |
Saturday, May 20, 2006
| 8:15 AM | Refreshments |
| 9:00 AM | Gunnar Carlsson, Stanford
University Algebraic Topology and High Dimensional Data |
| 10:15 AM | Noel Brady, University
of Oklahoma Perron-Frobenius Eigenvalues, Snowflake Groups and Isoperimetric Spectra |
| 11:30 AM | Martin Kassabov, Cornell
University Kazhdan Property T and its Applications |
| 12:30 PM | Lunch |
| 2:30 PM | Jesper Grodal, University
of Chicago From Finite Groups to Infinite Groups via Homotopy Theory |
| 4:00 PM | Panel discussion led by the invited speakers |
| 5:30 PM | Picnic at Stewart Park, large pavilion |
Sunday, May 21, 2006
| 8:15 AM | Refreshments |
| 9:00 AM | Thomas Farrell, Binghamton
University Some Applications of Topology to Geometry |
| 10:15 AM | Nathalie Wahl, University
of Chicago Mapping Class Groups of Non-orientable Surfaces |
| 11:30 AM | Robert Ghrist,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Homological Sensor Networks |
Thank you for joining us for the 44th Cornell Topology Festival.