Thank you!
The 45th annual Cornell Topology Festival was attended by 79 mathematicians; it featured ten one-hour invited talks, a table for preprints, and much opportunity for conversation. Several speakers were selected from the areas of algebraic, differential, and geometric topology, and Chris Leininger and Tim Riley gave workshop lectures. In addition, the speakers held a panel discussion on recent developments in topology.
Social activities included an opening reception, a banquet at Taughannock Farms Inn, two working luncheons, and a picnic. Travel grants were available to young mathematicians, women and minorities, and a significant number took advantage of these.Thanks to all the participants for making the 2007 festival a success!
Speakers
- Danny Calegari, California Institute of Technology
Curvature and stable commutator length - Ralph Cohen, Stanford
University
Surfaces in a background manifold and the homology of mapping class groups - Cornelia Drutu, Université des Sciences et Technologies
de Lille I
Relatively hyperbolic groups: geometry and quasi-isometric invariance - Alex Eskin, University of Chicago
Counting problems in Teichmüller space - Mark Feighn, Rutgers University
at Newark
Definable subsets of free groups - Ilya Kapovich, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Geodesic currents and outer space - Chris Leininger, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The boundary of the curve complex - Tim Riley, Cornell University
The geometry of discs spanning loops in groups and spaces - Juan Souto, University
of Chicago
Heegaard splittings and hyperbolic geometry - Gang Tian,
Princeton University
Geometrization of low dimensional manifolds
Workshops
- Chris Leininger,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mapping class groups versus Kleinian groups - Tim
Riley, Cornell University
Open problems in low-dimensional topology and group theory