Centre de recherches mathématiques
Universite de Montréal

Conférence sur la topologie des 3-variétés
soulignant le 60e anniversaire de Peter Shalen /
Conference on 3-manifold Topology
in Honour of Peter Shalen's 60th Birthday

12-15 juin / June 12-15, 2006

PROGRAMME


LUNDI 12 juin / MONDAY, June 12
08:30 - 09:30 Inscription / Registration
Café croissants / Coffee & Croissants (salle/Room 1221)
09:30 - 10:30 John Morgan (Columbia University)
Ricci Flow and Geometrization of 3-manifolds
Notes by N. Dunfield
10:30 - 11:00 Pause café / Coffee Break (Salle / Room 1221)
11:00 - 12:00 Peter A. Storm (Stanford University)
Applying Perelman's work to hyperbolic volume
Notes by N. Dunfield    Notes by Z. Huang
14:30 - 15:30 Yair Minsky (Yale University)
Coarse geometry of mapping class groups
Notes by N. Dunfield    Notes by Z. Huang
15:30 - 16:00
Pause café / Coffee Break (Room 1221)
16:00 - 17:00 Ian Agol (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Subgroup separability for some arithmetic groups
Notes by N. Dunfield
17:15 Réception de bienvenue / Welcoming Reception (Salle / Room 6245)
MARDI 13 juin / TUESDAY, June 13
08:30 - 09:30 Café croissants / Coffee & Croissants (Salle/Room 1221)
09:30 - 10:30 Dan Margalit (University of Utah)
Dimension of the Torelli group for Out(F_n)
Notes by N. Dunfield
10:30 - 11:00 Pause café / Coffee Break (Salle / Room 1221)
11:00 - 12:00 Alex Lubotzky (IAS)
Hyperbolic 3-manifolds, expanders and pro-p groups
Slides    Notes by N. Dunfield
14:30 - 15:30 Maryam Mirzakhani (Princeton University)
Simple geodesics on surfaces and Teichmüller space
Notes by N. Dunfield
15:30 - 16:00 Pause café / Coffee Break (Salle / Room 1221)
16:00 - 17:00 Michah Sageev (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
Quasi-isometries of right angled Artin groups
Notes by N. Dunfield
19:30 Banquet
MERCREDI 14 juin / WEDNESDAY, June 14
08:30 - 09:30 Pause café / Coffee Break (Salle / Room 1221)
09:30 - 10:30 Peter S. Ozsvath (Columbia University)
Heegaard Floer Homology
Notes by N. Dunfield
10:30 - 11:00 Pause café / Coffee Break (Salle / Room 1221)
11:00 - 12:00 Lenhard L. Ng (Stanford University)
Contact geometry and the A-polynomial
Notes by N. Dunfield
14:30 - 15:30 Jake Rasmussen (Princeton University)
Differentials on Khovanov-Rozansky homology
Notes by N. Dunfield
15:30 - 16:00 Pause café / Coffee Break (Salle / Room 6245)
16:00 - 17:00 Nathan Dunfield (Caltech)
Hyperbolic rational homology 3-spheres of large injectivity radius
Notes by the speaker
JEUDI 15 juin / THURSDAY, June 15
08:30 - 09:30 Pause café / Coffee Break (Salle / Room 1221)
09:30 - 10:30 Marc Culler (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Volume and topology of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Slides
10:30 - 11:00 Pause café / Coffee Break (Salle / Room 1221)
11:00 - 12:00 Cameron Gordon (University of Texas at Austin)
Knots with unknotting number 1
Slides