GEOMETRY AND THE IMAGINATION

A conference in honor of Bill Thurston's 60th Birthday
June 7-11, 2007


Program


All talks will take place in A02 McDonnell Hall

Sunday - June 10, 2007
Time
Speaker
Title
9:15am-10:15am
Daryl Cooper
UC Santa Barbara
Topology and real projective geometry
10:45am-11:45am
Mladen Bestvina
The cohomological dimension of Torelli groups
Break for Lunch
1:45pm-2:45pm
Danny Sleator
Carnegie Mellon
/ Robert Tarjan
Princeton
Our work with Bill on lengths of graph transformations
3:00pm-4:00pm
Dylan Thurston
Barnard/Columbia
Combinatorial link Floer homology via grid diagrams
4:30pm-5:30pm
Richard Schwartz
Brown
Outer billiards, unbounded orbits, and the modular group
7:30pm
Panel Discussion

All talks will take place in A02 McDonnell Hall

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  Funded by the the Nation Science Foundation, Clay Mathematics Institute and Princeton University.
Any Questions? Comments? Contact:
thurston60th@math.princeton.edu