GEOMETRY AND THE IMAGINATION
A conference in honor of Bill Thurston's 60th Birthday
June 7-11, 2007
Program
All talks on Thursday will take place in A01 McDonnell Hall
Thursday - June 7, 2007 |
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Time |
Speaker |
Title |
| 9:30am-10:30am | John Milnor Stony Brook |
Wild and tame dynamics on the projective plane |
| 10:45am-11:45am | Yasha Eliashberg Stanford |
Quasimorphisms and the quantum product in contact homology |
Break for Lunch |
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| 1:45pm-2:45pm | Yair Minsky Yale |
Coarse geometry of the mapping class group |
| 3:00pm-4:00pm | Oded Schramm Microsoft |
Conformally invariant scaling limits of discrete random systems (Slides) (Survey Paper) |
Break for Dinner |
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| 7:30pm- | Jeff Weeks Independent |
The Shape of Space |
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All talks on Friday will take place in 50 McCosh Hall
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 |
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All talks on Saturday will take place in A02 McDonnell HallSaturday - June 9, 2007 |
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Time |
Speaker |
Title |
| 9:15am-10:15am | John Morgan Columbia |
The Poincar\'e Conjecture and Thurston's Geometrization Conjecture |
| 10:45am-11:45am | Maryam Mirzakhani Princeton |
Ergodic properties of the space of measured laminations |
Break for Lunch |
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| 1:45pm-2:45pm | Etienne Ghys ENS Lyon |
Osculating curves |
| 3:00pm-4:00pm | Jeff Brock Brown |
Splittings, models, and bounds in hyperbolic geometry |
| 4:30pm-5:30pm | Mike Freedman ENS Lyon |
Three-manifold positivity |
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All talks on Sunday will take place in A02 McDonnell HallSunday - June 10, 2007 |
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Speaker |
Title |
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| 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 |
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| 1:45pm-2:45pm |
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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 |
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All talks on Monday will take place in A02 McDonnell HallMonday - June 11, 2007 |
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Time |
Speaker |
Title |
| 9:15am-10:15am | John Hubbard Cornell/Provence |
Semi-groups of Thurston mappings in Teichmuller space and their limit sets |
| 10:45am-11:45am | Bill Goldman Maryland |
Complete affine 3-manifolds and hyperbolic surfaces |
Break for Lunch |
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| 1:45pm-2:45pm | Dick Canary Michigan |
Introductory Bumponomics: Untouchable points in boundaries of deformation spaces of hyperbolic 3-manifolds |
| 3:00pm-4:00pm | Ko Honda USC |
Reeb vector fields and open book decompositions |
| 4:30pm-5:30pm | Benson Farb U. Chicago |
Analogies and contrasts between Riemann's moduli space and locally symmetric spaces |
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Any Questions? Comments? Contact: thurston60th@math.princeton.edu