Seifert surface of a trefoil knot

University of Arkansas Spring Lecture Series 2006

Schedule

             
Schedule for the 31st Annual Univ Arkansas Spring Lecture Series
             
             
Tuesday 180 9:30 AM 12:30 PM   Tim Riley Using filling functions to explore the geometry of the word problem
  90 12:30 PM 2:00 PM   Lunch  
  180 2:00 PM 5:00 PM   Noel Brady CAT(0) Stuff
             
Wednesday 10 9:00 AM 9:10 AM   Allan Cochran Opening Remarks
  60 9:10 AM 10:10 AM   Martin Bridson Geometric Group Theory: Lecture 1
  10 10:10 AM 10:20 AM   break  
  60 10:20 AM 11:20 AM   Walter Neumann Quasi-isometry of graph manifold groups and Artin groups
  10 11:20 AM 11:30 AM   break  
  25 11:30 AM 11:55 AM   Jason Behrstock Dimension and rank of mapping class groups.
  25 11:55 AM 12:20 PM   Jason Manning Combinatorial horoballs, quasi-geodesic bicombings, and relative hyperbolicity
  100 12:20 PM 2:00 PM   Lunch  
  60 2:00 PM 3:00 PM   Martin Bridson Geometric Group Theory: Lecture 2
  10 3:00 PM 3:10 PM   break  
  60 3:10 PM 4:10 PM   Mike Davis The cohomology of a Coxeter group with group ring coefficients as a W-module
  10 4:10 PM 4:20 PM   break  
  25 4:20 PM 4:45 PM   Max Forester High dimensional Dehn functions of groups
  25 4:45 PM 5:10 PM   TBA  
             
    5:30 PM     Barbeque, on the lawn of Old Main
             
Thursday 60 9:00 AM 10:00 AM   Martin Bridson Geometric Group Theory: Lecture 3
  10 10:00 AM 10:10 AM   break  
  60 10:10 AM 11:10 AM   TBA TBA
  10 11:10 AM 11:20 AM   break  
  25 11:20 AM 11:45 AM   Atish Mitra Some results on Nagata-Assouad dimension
  25 11:45 AM 12:10 PM   Damian Osadja Boundaries of right-angled hyperbolic buildings
  110 12:10 PM 2:00 PM   Lunch  
  60 2:00 PM 3:00 PM   Martin Bridson Geometric Group Theory: Lecture 4
  10 3:00 PM 3:10 PM   break  
  60 3:10 PM 4:10 PM   Karen Vogtmann Outer space for right-angled Artin groups
  10 4:10 PM 4:20 PM   break  
  25 4:20 PM 4:45 PM   Ilya Kazachkov Pro-p groups with non-isomorphic discrete and continuous cohomology groups
  25 4:45 PM 5:10 PM   Rena Levitt Biautomaticity and Nonpositively Curved Piecewise Euclidean 2-Complexes
             
Friday 60 9:00 AM 10:00 AM   Martin Bridson Geometric Group Theory: Lecture 5
  10 10:00 AM 10:10 AM   break  
  60 10:10 AM 11:10 AM   Peter Kropholler TBA
  10 11:10 AM 11:20 AM   break  
  25 11:20 AM 11:45 AM   Josh Barnard Distortion of surface groups in free-by-cyclic groups
  25 11:45 AM 12:10 PM   Daniel Groves The isomorphism problem for toral relatively hyperbolic groups
  110 12:10 PM 2:00 PM   Lunch  
  60 2:00 PM 3:00 PM   Martin Bridson Geometric Group Theory: Lecture 6
  10 3:00 PM 3:10 PM   break  
  60 3:10 PM 4:10 PM   Daniel Allcock Infinitely Many Coxeter Groups through Dimension 19
  10 4:10 PM 4:20 PM   break  
  25 4:20 PM 4:45 PM   Susan Hermiller Almost convexities and tame combings for groups
  25 4:45 PM 5:10 PM      
             
    6:30 PM     Banquet, Ozark Mountain Smokehouse
             
Saturday 60 9:30 AM 10:30 AM   Martin Bridson Geometric Group Theory: Lecture 7
  15 10:30 AM 10:45 AM   break  
  60 10:45 AM 11:45 AM   Jim Cannon The algebraic topology of planar sets
  15 11:45 AM 12:00 PM   break  
  60 12:00 PM 1:00 PM   Noel Brady Perron-Frobenius eigenvalues, snowflake groups and isoperimetric spectra.