CORNELL
TOPOLOGY
FESTIVAL
May 6-9, 2005
Thanks to all participants for making the 43rd annual Cornell
Topology Festival a success.
The speakers were:
- DENIS AUROUX (MIT)
SYMPLECTIC 4-MANIFOLDS, MAPPING CLASS GROUPS, AND FIBER SUMS
- AUGUSTIN BANYAGA (Pennsylvania State University)
SOME INVARIANTS OF TRANSVERSALLY ORIENTED FOLIATIONS
- PAUL BIRAN (Tel Aviv University)
ALGEBRAIC FAMILIES AND LAGRANGIAN CYCLES
- THOMAS DELZANT (IRMA, Strasbourg)
FUNDAMENTAL GROUPS OF KAEHLER MANIFOLDS
- YAKOV ELIASHBERG
(Stanford University)
GEOMETRY OF CONTACT TRANSFORMATIONS: ORDERABILITY VS. SQUEEZING
- ÉTIENNE GHYS (ENS-Lyon)
MINIMAL SETS OF HOLOMORPHIC FOLIATIONS ON THE COMPLEX PROJECTIVE PLANE: A SURVEY
- YAEL KARSHON (University of Toronto)
TORI IN SYMPLECTOMORPHISM GROUPS
- JOHN MORGAN (Columbia University)
RICCI FLOW AND TOPOLOGY OF 3-MANIFOLDS
- SHAHAR MOZES (Hebrew University)
LATTICES IN PRODUCTS OF TREES
- YANN OLLIVIER (ENS-Lyon)
A PANORAMA OF RANDOM GROUPS
- BRENDAN OWENS (Cornell University)
UNKNOTTING INFORMATION FROM HEEGAARD FLOER THEORY
The image at the top of this page is taken from Symplectic
4-manifolds, singular plane curves, and isotopy problems by Denis
Auroux (arXiv:math.GT/0411233),
by permission of the author.
*For the seventh time, a Klein bottle donated by Acme Klein bottle was awarded to
a randomly selected contributor to the preprint table.
PREVIOUS FESTIVALS:
2004 Festival Home Page / Photos
from 2004
2003 Festival Home Page / Photos
from 2003
2002 Festival Home Page / Photos
from 2002
2001 Festival Home Page / Photos
from 2001
2000 Festival Home Page
1999 Festival Home Page
1998 Festival Home Page
1997 Festival Home Page
Here is a list of speakers
at previous festivals, going back to 1982.
Last modified: Sun Jun 26 18:22:17 EST 2005