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


Tuesday Aug 13th

Time Speaker Title
9:15-10 Coffee and Bagels
10 - 11 Thang Le Torsion growth of finite covers
11:15 - 12:15 Nathan Dunfield Integer homology 3-spheres with large injectivity radius
12:15 - 2 Lunch
2 - 3 Jessica Purcell Cusp volumes of alternating knots
3 - 3:30 Coffee and Fruit
3:30 - 4:30 Johanna Mangahas Convex cocompactness in mapping class groups via quasiconvexity in right-angled Artin groups
4:45 - 5:45 Thomas Koberda Masur-Minsky style curve complex machinery for right-angled Artin groups