All talks are in the Forestry Auditorium, which is on the ground floor of the
building Forest Resources 2
This will be the
seventh in a series
of octennial conferences that have been held at the University
of Georgia starting in 1961.
The list of
speakers who have accepted our invitation includes:
Ian Agol (UC Berkeley)
Jorgen Andersen (University of Aarhus)
Denis Auroux (MIT)
Mladen Bestvina (University of Utah)
Michel Boileau (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)
Danny Calegari (Cal Tech)
Tobias Colding (MIT)
Yasha Eliashberg (Stanford University)
Ron Fintushel (Michigan State University)
Michael Freedman (Microsoft Station Q)
Stefan Friedl (University of Warwick)
Dave Gabai (Princeton)
Ursula Hamenstaedt (Bonn)
Shelly Harvey (Rice University)
Michael Hill (University of Virginia)
Michael Hutchings (UC Berkeley)
Bruce Kleiner (Yale University)
Peter Kronheimer (Harvard University)
Mark Lackenby (Oxford University)
Yanki Lekili (MIT)
Robert Lipshitz (Columbia University)
Dusa McDuff (Barnard College, Columbia University)
William Minicozzi (Johns Hopkins University)
Yair Minsky (Yale University)
Tom Mrowka (MIT)
Lenny Ng (Duke University)
Yi Ni (MIT)
Peter Ozsvath (Columbia University)
Alan Reid (UT Austin)
Paul Seidel (MIT)
Dennis Sullivan (CUNY Graduate School)
Zoltan Szabo (Princeton)
Dylan Thurston (Columbia University)
Gang Tian (Princeton)
Mike Usher (University of Georgia)
Karen Vogtmann (Cornell University)
Kevin Walker (Microsoft Station Q)
Liam Watson (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Katrin Wehrheim (MIT)
We will leave several speaking spots open
and fill them at the start of the conference. So far, over 200 people
have registered for the conference, including over 100 graduate students.
Ian Agol (UC Berkeley)
Gordon Aiello (The University of Toledo)
Petr Akhmetiev (IZMIRAN, Russia)
Valery Alexeev (University of Georgia)
Mio Alter (University of Texas at Austin)
Jorgen Andersen (University of Aarhus)
Emi Arima (UC Davis)
J. Kyle Armstrong (Florida State University)
Christopher Atkinson (University of Illinois at Chicago)
David Auckly (Kansas State University)
Denis Auroux (MIT)
Ken Baker (University of Miami)
Scott Baldridge (Louisiana State University)
John Baldwin (Princeton)
Samuel Ballas (University of Texas)
Carlos Barrera-Rodriguez (UC Davis)
Loretta Bartolini (Oklahoma State University)
Torcuato Battaglia (University of Pennsylvania)
Sybilla Beckmann (University of Georgia)
Jennifer Belton (University of Georgia)
Mladen Bestvina (University of Utah)
Eitan Bhatav (Stony Brook University)
Guy Roger Biyogmam (New Mexico State University)
Ryan Blair (UC Santa Barbara)
Jonathan Bloom (Columbia University)
Michel Boileau (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)
Maciej Borodzik (Institute of Mathematics, Warsaw University)
Jan Boronski (Auburn University)
Sean Bowman (University of Texas)
Mark Branson (Columbia University)
Mark Brittenham (University of Nebraska)
Tova Brown (MIT)
John Burke (Wesleyan University)
Danny Calegari (Cal Tech)
Jim Cantrell (University of Georgia)
William Cavendish (Princeton)
Radu Andrei Cebanu (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Jae Choon Cha (POSTECH, Korea)
Benoit Charbonneau (Duke University)
Dechang Chen (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Michael Ching (University of Georgia)
Keon Choi (UC Berkeley)
Ka Choi (UC Berkeley)
David Clark (Randolph-Macon College)
Tim Cochran (Rice University)
Tobias Colding (MIT)
Taylor Coon (Rice University)
Patrick Corbin (Tulane University)
Baris Coskunuzer (Koç University)
Andrew Cotton-Clay (UC Berkeley)
David Crombecque (Muhlenberg College)
Cynthia Curtis (The College of New Jersey)
Emille Davie (UC Santa Barbara)
Christopher Davis (Rice University)
Wei Deng (Washington University in St. Louis)
Michael Deutsch (Washington University in St. Louis)
Alan Diaz (Georgia Tech)
Margaret Doig (Princeton)
Sean Droms (University of Virginia)
Matthew Drury (Indiana University)
Robert Edwards (UCLA)
Yasha Eliashberg (Stanford University)
Andrew Elliott (Rice University)
Ilya Elson (SUNY at Stony Brook)
Tolga Etgu (Koç University)
John Etnyre (Georgia Tech)
Ana Evans (University of Virginia)
Brie Fiengold (UC Santa Barbara)
Ron Fintushel (Michigan State University)
Adam Fletcher (Bethany College and West Virginia University)
Bridgett Franklin (Rice University)
Michael Freedman (Microsoft Station Q)
Stefan Friedl (University of Warwick)
Joseph Fu (University of Georgia)
Dave Gabai (Princeton)
Swiatoslaw Gal (Ohio State University)
Sheel Ganatra (MIT)
Stavros Garoufalidis (Georgia Tech)
Angela Gibney (University of Georgia)
Allison Gilmore (Columbia University)
Darlan Girao (University of Texas)
Jose Manuel Gomez (University of British Columbia)
Georgi Gospodinov (Franklin W. Olin College)
Brandy Guntel (University of Texas)
Subhojoy Gupta (Yale University)
Yusuf Z Gurtas (DePauw University)
Boguslaw Hajduk (University of Poland)
Tracy Hall (Brigham Young University/Utah Valley University)
Ursula Hamenstaedt (Bonn)
Eric Harper (University of Miami)
Shelly Harvey (Rice University)
Chris Hays (Michigan State University)
Prudence Heck (Indiana University)
Sebastian Hensel (University of Bonn)
Daniel Herr (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Sa’ar Hersonsky (University of Georgia)
Michael Hill (University of Virginia)
Nancy Hingston (College of New Jersey)
Matt Hogancamp (University of Virgina)
John Hollingsworth (University of Georgia)
Jennifer Hom (University of Pennsylvania)
Ko Honda (USC)
Ramon Horvath (Eotvos Lorand Universitiy)
Zheng Huang (City University of New York)
Yang Huang (University of Southern California)
Michael Hutchings (UC Berkeley)
Amey Kaloti (Georgia Tech)
Will Kazez (University of Georgia)
Kate Kearney (Indiana University)
David Kelle (Florida State University)
Lee Kennard (University of Pennsylvania)
Bruce Kleiner (Yale University)
Adam Knapp (Columbia University)
Tatyana Kobylyatskaya (Harvard University)
Danuta Kolodziejczyk (Warsaw University of Technology)
Peter Kronheimer (Harvard University)
Slava Krushkal (University of Virginia)
Mark Lackenby (Oxford University)
Constance Leidy (Wesleyan University)
Yanki Lekili (MIT)
Adam Levine (Columbia University)
Sam Lewallen (Princeton)
Tye Lidman (UCLA)
Robert Lipshitz (Columbia University)
Max Lipyanskiy (Columbia University)
Yi Liu (UC Berkeley)
Yang Liu (University of Georgia)
John MacKay (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Fabiola Manjarrez-Gutierrez (UC Davis)
Malgorzata Marciniak (Missouri University of Science and Technology)
Bernard Mares (MIT)
Thomas Mark (University of Virginia)
Gordana Matic (University of Georgia)
Maksim Maydanskiy (MIT)
Clint McCrory (University of Georgia)
Dusa McDuff (Barnard College, Columbia University)
Jason McGibbon (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Gael Meigniez (UBS, France)
William Minicozzi (Johns Hopkins University)
Yair Minsky (Yale University)
Whitney Montgomery (University of Georgia)
Scott Morrison (Microsoft Station Q / UCSB)
Tom Mrowka (MIT)
Brian Munson (Wellesley College)
Robert Myers (Oklahoma State University)
Kei Nakamura (Oklahoma State University)
Lenny Ng (Duke University)
Yi Ni (MIT)
Joa Miguel Nogueira (University of Texas)
Mark Norfleet (University of Texas)
John Olsen (University of Pennsylvania)
Sinem Onaran Celik (Middle East Technical University/Georga Tech)
Carolyn Otto (Rice University)
Peter Ozsvath (Columbia University)
Suchandan Pal (Florida State University)
Weiwei Pan (Wesleyan College)
Suhas Pandit (Indian Statistical Institute)
James Pascaleff (MIT)
Elena Pavelescu (Rice University)
Thomas Peters (Columbia University)
Kate Petersen (Florida State)
Olga Plamenevskaya (Stony Brook University)
Piotr Przytycki (Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences)
Yulan Qing (Tufts University, MIT)
Sridhar Rajagopalan ()
Alan Reid (UT Austin)
Reza Rezazadegan (Rutgers)
Antonio Rieser (University of Montreal)
Rory Rother (University of Texas)
Mitch Rothstein (University of Georgia)
Daniel Ruberman (Brandeis)
Yuli Rudyak (University of Florida)
Rustam Sadykov (Darmouth College)
Bianca Santoro (Duke University)
Nikhil Savale (MIT)
Saul Schleimer (University of Warwick)
Henry Segerman (University of Texas)
Paul Seidel (MIT)
Rosa Sena-Dias (MIT)
Sobhan Seyfaddini (UC Berkeley)
Sohrab Shahshahani (University of Pennsylvania)
Clayton Shonkwiler (University of Pennsylvania)
Ben Sibley (University of Maryland)
Jonah Sinick (University of Illinois at Urbana)
Steven Sivek (MIT)
Eric Staron (University of Texas)
Gordana Stojanovic (Georgia Tech)
Ethan Street (Harvard)
Aleksandar Subotic (Harvard University)
Dennis Sullivan (CUNY Graduate School)
Chun-yi Sun (Yale University)
Nathan Sunukjian (Michigan State University)
Aditya Surapaneni (University of Pennsylvania)
Margaret Symington (Mercer University)
Zoltan Szabo (Princeton)
Rohit Thomas (UC Davis)
Sean Thomas (Emory)
Dylan Thurston (Columbia University)
Gang Tian (Princeton)
Maggy Tomova (University of Iowa)
Anh Tran (Georgia Tech)
David Trotman (University of Provence)
Victor Turchin (Kansas State University)
Eamonn Tweedy (UCLA)
Mike Usher (University of Georgia)
Eric Van Erp (University of Pennsylvania)
Jeremy Van Horn-Morris (UQAM)
David Vela-Vick (University of Pennsylvania)
Karen Vogtmann (Cornell University)
Kevin Walker (Microsoft Station Q)
Shuguang Wang (University of Missouri - Columbia)
Dongxu Wang (Florida State Univeristy)
Liam Watson (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Katrin Wehrheim (MIT)
Zhaoting Wei (University of Pennsylvania)
Linda (Crystal) White (Florida State University)
Mike Williams (SUNY Stony Brook)
Jonathan Williams (University of Texas)
Benjamin Wilson (UCSD)
Zhongtao Wu (Princeton)
Guo Xiao (SUNY Buffalo)
Cai Xuanting (Louisana State University)
Haibo Yan (Texas A&M University)
Tian Yang (Rutgers University, New Brunswick)
Mei-Lin Yau (National Central University)
Rumen Zarev (Columbia University)
Yu Zhang (SUNY Buffalo)
The conference
organizers are Michael Ching, Will Kazez, Gordana Matic, Clint McCrory,
and Mike Usher. We highly value the input we have received from our
scientific organizing committee of Simon Donaldson, Yasha Eliashberg,
Dave Gabai, Rob Kirby, Bruce Kleiner, Dennis Sullivan, Cliff Taubes,
and Karen Vogtmann.