Topology Festival Schedule

May 6-9, 2005

All events except the banquet and picnic will take place in Malott Hall.


Friday, May 6
3:00-4:30 Registration and refreshments in the Mathematics Lounge, 5th floor of Malott Hall
4:30-5:30 ÉTIENNE GHYS
"Minimal sets of holomorphic foliations on the complex projective plane: A survey"
Evening Banquet
Saturday, May 7
8:15-9:00 Coffee, bagels, donuts, orange juice, etc.
9:00-10:00 YAKOV ELIASHBERG
Workshop: "The h-principle in symplectic and contact geometry"
10:15-11:15 AUGUSTIN BANYAGA
"Some invariants of transversally oriented foliations"
11:30-12:30 BRENDAN OWENS
"Unknotting information from Heegaard Floer theory"
12:30-2:00 Working luncheon in the Malott Hall Lounge
2:00-3:00 REYER SJAMAAR
Workshop on symplectic geometry/topology
3:15-4:15 THOMAS DELZANT
"Fundamental groups of Kaehler manifolds"
4:30-5:30 YAKOV ELIASHBERG
"Geometry of contact transformations: orderability vs. squeezing"
5:30 Dinner on the town
Sunday, May 8
8:15-9:00 Coffee, bagels, donuts, orange juice, etc.
9:00-10:00 JOHN MORGAN
"Ricci flow and topology of 3-manifolds"
10:30-11:30 YANN OLLIVIER
"A panorama of random groups"
11:30-1:30 Working luncheon
1:30-2:30 YAEL KARSHON
"Tori in symplectomorphism groups"
3:00 THE INVITED SPEAKERS
Panel discussion
5:30 Picnic at Stewart Park, Large Pavilion
Monday, May 9
8:15-9:00 Coffee, bagels, donuts, orange juice, etc.
9:00-10:00 DENIS AUROUX
"Symplectic 4-manifolds, mapping class groups, and fiber sums"
10:30-11:30 SHAHAR MOZES
"Lattices in products of trees"
12:00-1:00 PAUL BIRAN
"Algebraic families and Lagrangian cycles"

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