Buffalo Geometry and Topology Conference
March 2008
 

Friday, March 7
3:00PM - 4:00PM Thang Le Georgia Tech The Jones polynomial and the A-polynomial of knots
4:00PM - 5:00PM Benson Farb University of Chicago The Torelli group: algebra, topology and dynamics, Part II
(This is the last of the three Myhill lectures.)
Saturday, March 8
9:30AM - 10:30AM Ian Agol UC Berkeley Virtually fibered hyperbolic 3-orbifolds
11:00AM - 12:00PM Joan Birman Barnard-Columbia Lorenz links, twisted torus links and modular knots
12:00PM - 2:00PM LUNCH
2:00PM - 3:00PM Daniel Groves UI Chicago Homomorphisms to mapping class groups
3:30PM - 4:30PM Daryl Cooper UC Santa Barbara Real Projective Structures and Non-standard analysis
Sunday, March 9th
9:30AM - 10:30AM Tao Li Boston College Heegaard splittings of amalgamated 3-manifolds and distance in the curve complex.
11:00AM - 12:00PM Steve Boyer UQAM Reducible Dehn fillings
See here for abstracts.