Topology Festival Schedule

Cornell Topology Festival

May 2-4, 1997

All events except the dinner and picnic will take place on the main floor of Goldwin Smith Hall (NOT where it has been in previous years!), with the talks in Kaufmann Auditorium.

Friday, May 2

3:00-4:30Registration and refreshments
4:30-5:30    
 
Bruce Kleiner (University of Pennsylvania)
THE LARGE-SCALE GEOMETRY OF SPACES WITH NONPOSITIVE CURVATURE
7:30Dinner at TURBACK'S OF ITHACA (cash bar 6:30-7:30)

Saturday, May 3

8:15-9:30 Coffee, bagels, donuts, orange juice, etc.
9:30-10:30 
 
Michael Hopkins (M.I.T.)
TOPOLOGICAL MODULAR FORMS
11:00-12:00 
 
Lisa Carbone (Columbia University)
NON-UNIFORM LATTICES ON UNIFORM TREES
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30
 
Zoltan Szabo (Princeton University)
DISPROVING THE MINIMAL CONJECTURE
3:00-4:00 
 
Michah Sageev (University of Southampton)
JSJ-SPLITTINGS FOR FINITELY PRESENTED GROUPS
5:00 Picnic at Stewart Park, Large Pavilion

Sunday, May 4

8:00-9:00Coffee, bagels, donuts, orange juice, etc.
9:30-10:30
 
Bill Dwyer (Notre Dame University)
HOMOLOGY DECOMPOSITIONS OF CLASSIFYING SPACES
11:00-12:00 
 
Zlil Sela (Columbia University)
LOW DIMENSIONAL TOPOLOGY, ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY OVER GROUPS, AND THE ELEMENTARY THEORY OF FREE GROUPS

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