GEOMETRY AND THE IMAGINATION
A conference in honor of Bill Thurston's 60th Birthday
June 7-11, 2007
Program
Friday - June 8, 2007 |
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Time |
Speaker |
Title |
| 9:15am-10:15am | Karen Vogtmann Cornell |
Actions of the group of outer automorphisms of a free group |
| 10:45am-11:45am | Marc Lackenby Oxford |
The crossing number of composite knots |
Break for Lunch |
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| 1:45pm-2:45pm | Robert Meyerhoff Boston College |
The hyperbolic 3-manifold of minimum volume |
| 3:00pm-4:00pm | Ian Agol UIC, Berkeley |
On a virtually gutless conjecture of Thurston |
| 4:30pm-5:30pm | Dennis Sullivan Stony Brook |
Nonlinear Homology |
All talks on Friday will take place in 50 McCosh Hall
To 50 McCosh walk up Washington Road to Woodrow Wilson School. Use crosswalk to cross Washington Road.
Walk up steps and look to the right. There is an archway. Go thru the archway and you will see Entry 5. Go in that door and walk or take elevator to the second floor. When you get off the elevator turn right and then right again.
Any Questions? Comments? Contact: thurston60th@math.princeton.edu