Topology Festival Schedule

May 3-5, 2002

All events except the dinner and picnic will take place in Malott Hall. The talks will be in Malott 406.


Friday, May 3
3:30-4:30 Registration and refreshments in the Mathematics Lounge, 5th floor of Malott Hall
4:30-5:30 DUSA McDUFF
"The Topology of Groups of Symplectomorphisms"
6:30-7:30 Cash bar at Bistro Q, 708 W. Buffalo St.
7:30 Dinner at Bistro Q
Saturday, May 4
8:45-9:30 Coffee, bagels, donuts, orange juice, etc.
9:30-10:30 MLADEN BESTVINA
"Measured laminations and group theory"
11:00-12:00 DANIEL BISS
"The combinatorics of smooth manifolds: oriented matroids in topology"
12:00-2:00 Lunch in the Malott Hall Lounge
2:00-3:00 GUOLIANG YU
"The Novikov conjecture and geometry of groups"
3:30-4:30 PETER OZSVATH
"Holomorphic disks and low-dimensional topology"
5:30 Picnic at Stewart Park, Large Pavilion
Sunday, May 5
8:45-9:30 Coffee, bagels, donuts, orange juice, etc.
9:30-10:30 STEVE GERSTEN
"Isoperimetric inequalities for nilpotent groups"
11:00-12:00 YAIR MINSKY
"On Thurston's Ending Lamination Conjecture"

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