(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."
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"
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
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"
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"