CORNELL
TOPOLOGY
FESTIVAL*
May 7-10, 2004
Thanks to all participants for making the 42nd annual Cornell
Topology Festival a success.
The speakers were:
- IAN AGOL (University of Illinois at Chicago)
TAMENESS OF HYPERBOLIC 3-MANIFOLDS
- JEFF BROCK (Brown University and University of Texas)
ENDING LAMINATIONS AND THE WEIL-PETERSSON VISUAL SPHERE
- NATHAN DUNFIELD (Caltech)
DOES A RANDOM 3-MANIFOLD FIBER
OVER THE CIRCLE
- JOHN ETNYRE (University of Pennsylvania)
INVARIANTS OF EMBEDDINGS VIA CONTACT GEOMETRY
- ROSTISLAV GRIGORCHUK
(Texas A&M University)
GROUPS OF BRANCH TYPE AND
FINITELY PRESENTED GROUPS
- PETER KRONHEIMER (Harvard University)
PROPERTY P FOR KNOTS
- YULI RUDYAK (University of Florida)
CATEGORY WEIGHT AND THE ARNOLD
CONJECTURE ON FIXED POINTS OF
SYMPLECTOMORPHISMS
- RICH SCHWARTZ (University of Maryland)
SPHERICAL CR GEOMETRY AND DEHN SURGERY
- DENNIS SULLIVAN (City University of New York)
STRING BACKGROUND IN ALGEBRAIC TOPOLOGY
- ZOLTAN SZABO (Princeton University)
HEEGAARD DIAGRAMS AND HOLOMORPHIC DISKS
- BILL THURSTON (Cornell University)
WHAT NEXT?
The image at the top of this page is taken from the graphics
archive of the Geometry Center, which
owns the copyright.
*This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation
under Grant No. 0244361. Any opinions, findings, and conclustions or recommendations
expressed in this material are those of the organizers or authors and do not
necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).
**A Klein bottle donated by Acme Klein bottles was awarded to a randomly
selected contributor to the preprint table.
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