Geometric Topology in New York

Columbia University August 12th - 16th 2013


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Schedule

The conference will start on Monday 2 pm and end on Friday around noon. All talks will be held in Room 312. Coffee and bagels/fruit will be served in the Math Lounge Room 508.


Titles and Abstracts


All days Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday


Thursday Aug 15th

Time Speaker Title
9:15-10 Coffee and Bagels
10 - 11 Marc Lackenby Polynomial upper bounds on Reidemeister moves
11:15 - 12:15 Feng Luo A discrete uniformization theorem for polyhedral surfaces
12:15 - 2 Lunch
2 - 3 Jeremy Kahn The Surface Subgroup Theorem and the Ehrenpreis conjecture
3 - 3:30 Coffee and Fruit
3:30 - 4:30 Chris Leininger Dyanmics on free-by-cyclic groups
4:45 - 5:45 Noel Brady Snowflake Subgroups of CAT(0) Groups