Georgia Topology Conference

(the totally final schedule)

All talks will be in Room 323 of the Boyd Graduate Studies Research Center


Wednesday, July 12

9:00 Coffee and bagels, room 409

9:30 Sergio Fenley, "R-covered foliations in 3-manifolds and transverse pseudo-Anosov flows"

11:00 Mehrzad Ajoodanain, "Morse theory and taut foliations"

2:00 Aaron Abrams, "Configuration spaces and braid groups of graphs"

3:30 John Etnyre, "Legendrian Knots, contact homology and orientations." 


Thursday, July 13

9:00 Coffee and bagels, room 409

9:30 Jason Cantarella, "Writhing of knots and helicity of vector fields I"

11:00 Herman Gluck, "Writhing of knots and helicity of vector fields II"

2:00 Ely Kerman, "Periodic orbits of a particle in a magnetic field"

3:30 Anthony Baker, "Symbolic dynamics from low dimensional expansion"


Friday, July 14

9:00 Coffee and bagels, room 409

9:30 Diane Hofoss, "3-manifolds which admit quasigeodesic flows"

11:00 Serge Tabachnikov, "Topology of cyclic configuration spaces and periodic trajectories of multi-dimensional Birkhoff billiards"

1:30 Canoe trip 


Saturday, July 15

9:00 Coffee and bagels, room 409

9:30 Chris Connell, "Aspects of Minimum Volume in Higher Rank"

11:00 Susan Williams, "Knots, links and symbolic dynamics I: knot group representations and shifts of finite type"

2:00 Dan Silver, "Knots, links and symbolic dynamics II: Mahler measure and Alexander polynomials"

3:30 Eiko Kin, "Homeomorphisms inducing all link types" 


Sunday, July 16

9:00 Coffee and bagels, room 409

9:30 Rob Vandervorst, "Morse theory on the space of braids and an application to Lagrangian dynamics"

11:00 Michael Sullivan, "Twist-wise flow equivalence"