The 2nd William Rowan Hamilton Geometry and Topology Workshop
                       September 28-30, 2006
       The Hamilton Mathematical Institute, Trinity College Dublin

    Surface Groups in Low Dimensional Topology and Geometric Group Theory

Sponsors: Boston College, the Hamilton Mathematics Institute and the
National Science Foundation

Organizing Committee: Noel Brady, Tom Brady, Martin Bridgeman, Martin
Bridson, Siddhartha Sen, Dmitri Zaitsev

Workshop website: http://www.hamilton.tcd.ie/events/gt/gt2006.htm

The 2nd William Rowan Hamilton Geometry and Topology Workshop will be held
at the Hamilton Mathematics Institute (HMI), in Trinity College Dublin,
Ireland. This year, the workshop runs from Thursday, Sept 28 through
Saturday, Sept 30. This year's topic is Surface Subgroups in Low Dimensional
Topology and Geometric Group Theory.

The workshop will focus on common themes and techniques for producing closed
hyperbolic surface subgroups in the following three areas.
(1) Mapping class groups.
    Motivating problems. Finding a purely pseudo-Anosov closed hyperbolic
    surface subgroup of MCG.
(2) 3-manifold groups.
    Motivating Problems. Virtual Haken and Virtual Fibering conjectures.
(3) Geometric Group Theory.
    Motivating Problems. Ubiquity of closed hyperbolic surface subgroups
    of various classes of groups.

Funding and Sponsors:

The workshop is co-sponsored by Boston College, the HMI, and the NSF.
Funding is available for both junior and senior researchers. The NSF funding
is provided to help US based researchers attend the workshop.


Other Information:

Details about speakers, format of the workshop, application for
funding, registration, and accommodation are available on the workshop
website.

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