Topology Festival Schedule

May 5-7, 2000

We are pleased to announce that this year all events except the dinner and picnic will take place in Malott Hall, the new home of the Cornell Mathematics Department. The first talk will be in Malott 251 and the remaining talks in Malott 406.


Friday, May 5
3:30-4:30 Registration and refreshments in the Mathematics Lounge, 5th floor of Malott Hall
   
4:30-5:30   
 
 

ROSS GEOGHEGAN

"SL(2) actions on the hyperbolic plane"

   
   
6:00-7:00 Cash bar at the Big Red Barn (on campus, adjacent to Malott Hall)
7:00 Banquet at the Big Red Barn
   
Saturday, May 6
8:15-9:00 Coffee, bagels, donuts, orange juice, etc.
   
9:00-10:00
 
 

CHRIS CONNELL

"Volume growth rigidity"

   
10:20-11:20
 
 

MARK SAPIR

"Some applications of Higman embeddings"

   
 11:40-12:40
 
 

 THOMAS MARK

"Curve-counting and Seiberg-Witten invariants of three-manifolds"

12:40-2:00 Lunch in the Malott Hall Lounge
2:00-3:00
 
 

JOHN ROE

"Amenability and assembly maps"

   
 3:30-4:30
 
 

KEVIN WHYTE

"Large scale geometry of graphs of groups"

   
5:30 Picnic at Stewart Park, Large Pavilion
   
Sunday, May 7
8:15-9:30 Coffee, bagels, donuts, orange juice, etc.
   
9:30-10:30
 
 

MARTIN BRIDSON

"Subgroups of semihyperbolic groups"

   
11:00-12:00
 
 

STEPHEN BIGELOW

"Braid groups are linear"

   
 12:30-2:30  Hike at Taughanock Falls State Park