Second Announcement:

TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL WORKSHOP IN GEOMETRIC TOPOLOGY

WHEN:  June 4-6, 2009
WHERE:  University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
PRINCIPAL SPEAKER:  Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah

Please consider joining us for the Twenty-sixth Annual Workshop in Geometric Topology to be held at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee from Thursday June 4th through Saturday June 6th. Principal speaker Mladen Bestvina will give a series of one-hour presentations on:

1) PL Morse Theory,
2) Finiteness Properties of Groups, and
3) Bounded Cohomology.
  
In addition, participants will have the opportunity to give 20-25 minute talks on their own work.

The workshop is supported by NSF. That funding will allow us to cover part of the travel expenses for participants without other means of support. Graduate students working in geometric topology and geometric group theory are especially encouraged to apply for funding. Requests for financial support are due by May 2.

Other deadlines, along with abstracts for the main lectures and information about travel and housing, can be found at:

http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Math/conf/topology09/main.htm

If you expect to attend, please complete the online registration form so we can begin to estimate the the number of participants. We hope to see you in June!


The Organizers:
Ric Ancel, UW-Milwaukee
Craig Guilbault, UW-Milwaukee
Dennis Garity, Oregon State University
Fred Tinsley, Colorado College
Gerard Venema, Calvin College
David Wright, Brigham Young University

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