This is the first announcement for the conference
TOPOLOGY AND GEOMETRY IN DIMENSION THREE:
Triangulations, Invariants, and Geometric Structures
WHEN: June 4-6, 2010
WHERE: Oklahoma State University (Stillwater, OK)
WEBSITE: http://www.math.okstate.edu/jacofest
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This conference is in honor of William Jaco, on the occasion of his
70th birthday. The meeting will play broadly on the theme of the use of
triangulations as a means of constructing geometric structures on
3-manifolds.
SPEAKERS:
• Ian Agol (University of California - Berkeley)
• Francis Bonahon (University of Southern California)
• Jeff Brock (Brown University)
• Danny Calegari (California Institute of Technology)
• Nathan Dunfield (University of Illinois - Champaign-Urbana)
• David Futer (Temple University)
• Eli Grigsby (Boston College)
• Cameron Gordon (University of Texas at Austin)
• Feng Luo (Rutgers University)
• Robert Myers (Oklahoma State University)
• Jessica Purcell (Brigham Young University)
• Hyam Rubinstein (University of Melbourne)
• Saul Schleimer (University of Warwick)
• Peter Shalen (University of Illinois - Chicago)
• Dylan Thurston (Barnard College/Columbia University)
• Stephan Tillmann (University of Queensland)
Travel funding is available for graduate students and early career
mathematicians to attend. Please see the web site for details.
A refereed volume of conference proceedings will be published in the
AMS Contemporary Mathematics series. Submissions can be sent to
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