Rolfsenfest - Low Dimensional Topology, Knots, and Orderable Groups

  • Start Date: 07/01/2013
  • End Date: 07/05/2013
Speaker(s):

 

Bigelow, Stephen (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)

 

Boileau, Michel (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)

 

Calegari, Danny (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA)

 

Marché, Julien (École Polytechnique, Palaiseau)

 

Navas, Andrés (Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile)

 

Ozsváth, Peter (Princeton, USA)

 

Paoluzzi Luisa (Université de Provence, Marseille)

 

Rolfsen, Dale (University of British Columbia, Canada)

 

Thurston, Dylan (Indiana University, USA)

 

Wiest, Bert (Université de Rennes 1, Rennes) 

Location: 

CIRM Luminy-Marseille

Topic: 

The interplay between 3-manifold topology, ordered groups and dynamics

Description: 

A conference in honour of Dale
Rolfsen will take place July 1 - July 5, 2013 at the CIRM (International
Center of Mathematical Meetings), in Luminy, Marseille. This conference
will bring together a community of researchers whose interests are
connected with the interplay between 3-manifold topology, ordered groups
and dynamics.

 

Abstracts / Downloads / Reports: 
rolfsenfest.pdf
Schedule: 

The conference will start on Monday, July 1st, at 9:00 am, and will end on Friday, July 5th, at noon.

Organizers:

Steve Boyer (Université du Québec à Montréal)

 

Adam Clay (Université du Québec à Montréal)

 

Luis Paris (Université de Bourgogne)

 

Liam Watson (University of California, Los Angeles)

Other Information: 

Pre-registration is now open through the registration page. The registration fees will work on a sliding scale depending on the funding received, arrangements for payment will be communicated to participants after pre-registration closes.In return, living expenses (rooms and meals) for all participants are covered by the organization. Travel costs of participants are not covered. It may not be possible to provide single rooms for all those who request it, some will be placed in double rooms.

 

Speakers and program

Once finalized, the program will be made available. At pre-registration, participants are invited to submit an abstract for a 30 minute talk. The Scientific Committee will choose from these proposals in order to complete the program.

 

 

Please refer to the official conference website for up-to-date details: http://thales.math.uqam.ca/~rolfsenfest/

Sponsor: 

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