Univ. of Utah and Brigham Young Univ. along with the NSF are sponsoring
the 27th Semiannual Wasatch Topology Conference to be held December 13th
and 14th in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Speakers and titles:

Ian Agol (UC Berkeley)

Shinpei Baba (UC Davis)
Complex projective structures with  Schottky holonomy

Tom Church (U of Chicago)
Groups of mapping classes that cannot be realized by diffeomorphisms

Matt Clay (U of Oklahoma)
Twisting out fully irreducible automorphisms

Alex Eskin (U of Chicago)
Counting closed geodesics in strata

Ilya Kapovich (U of IL, Urbana-Champaign)
Schottki-type subgroups of Out(F_N)

The conference is being organized by Mladen Bestvina, Ken Bromberg, Greg
Conner and Kevin Wortman. Please see http://www.math.utah.edu/wtc/ or
contact [log in to unmask] for more information.

Some funding is available for graduate students and post-docs.

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