Schedule of Activities
Monday, May 21, 2007
| 3:00 PM | Registration in the 3rd floor foyer of Malott Hall |
| 3:30 PM | Refreshments in the 5th floor lounge of Malott Hall |
| 4:30 PM | Gang
Tian, Princeton University Geometrization of low dimensional manifolds |
| 6:30 PM | Cash bar at Taughannock Farms Inn |
| 7:00 PM | Banquet at Taughannock Farms Inn |
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
| 8:15 AM | Refreshments in the 5th floor lounge of Malott Hall |
| 9:00 AM | Tim Riley, Cornell
University Workshop: Open problems in low-dimensional topology and group theory |
| 10:15 AM | Mark
Feighn, Rutgers University at Newark Definable subsets of free groups |
| 11:30 AM | Lunch in the 5th floor lounge of Malott Hall |
| 1:00 PM | Chris Leininger,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Workshop: Mapping class groups versus Kleinian groups |
| 2:15 PM | Juan
Souto, University of Chicago Heegaard splittings and hyperbolic geometry |
| 3:45 PM | Ilya
Kapovich, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Geodesic currents and outer space |
| 5:00 PM | Night on the town |
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
| 8:15 AM | Refreshments in the 5th floor lounge of Malott Hall |
| 9:00 AM | Ralph
Cohen, Stanford University Surfaces in a background manifold and the homology of mapping class groups |
| 10:30 AM | Tim
Riley, Cornell University The geometry of discs spanning loops in groups and spaces |
| 11:45 AM | Lunch in the 5th floor lounge of Malott Hall |
| 1:30 PM | Danny
Calegari, California Institute of Technology Curvature and stable commutator length |
| 3:00 PM | Panel discussion led by the invited speakers |
| 5:00 PM | Picnic at Stewart Park, large pavilion |
Thursday, May 24, 2007
| 8:15 AM | Refreshments in the 5th floor lounge of Malott Hall |
| 9:00 AM | Cornelia
Drutu, Université des Sciences et Technologies
de Lille I Relatively hyperbolic groups: geometry and quasi-isometric invariance |
| 10:15 AM | Chris
Leininger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The boundary of the curve complex |
| 11:30 AM | Alex
Eskin, University of Chicago Counting problems in Teichmüller space |