University of Michigan and Michigan State University

Geometry and Topology Student Conference

December 2-3, 2006

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The University of Michigan recently hosted a student seminar for students interested in geometry and topology at the University of Michigan and Michigan State University. The schedule of talks is below.

Our purpose was to bring graduate students from these nearby universities together to meet each other, and for students to teach each other about the specific types of geometry and topology that they do. The talks represented a broad range of mathematics, from geometric group theory to Riemannian geometry to 4-manifold topology.

We thank the geometry and topology research group for their financial support. Specifically, our costs were subsidized by Michigan's RTG grant from the NSF.

 

Schedule

Saturday, December 2 Dennison 260    
  10:00am Introductions, Coffee  
  10:30am Adam Knapp Donaldson-Smith standard surface count
  11:45pm Diane Vavrichek Group Accessibility and Applications to Topology
  12:45pm Lunch  
  2:15pm Cagri Karakurt Open Books on Plumbings
  3:30pm Kevin Wildrick Quasisymmetry and conformal geometry
  4:45pm Inanc Baykur Near-symplectic 4-manifolds and (smooth) Invariants
  7:00pm Dinner  
Sunday, December 3 East Hall 1360    
  10:00am Eric Zupunski Actions of Groups on Trees and R-Trees
  11:15am

Selahi Durusoy

 Heegaard Floer homology and its applications to knot theory
  12:30pm

Lunch

  
  2:00pm

Joerg Enders

 An application of monotonicity in the Ricci flow

Download complete titles and abstracts here.

 

Here are some pictures from the conference, courtesy of Selahi.

 

 

 

Contact one of the organizers if you have any questions.

Aaron: magid(at)umich(dot)edu

Jose: josmago(at)umich(dot)edu

Cagatay: kutluhan(at)umich(dot)edu

Adam: knappa(at)math(dot)msu(dot)edu

 

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