Cascade
Topology
Seminar
The Cascade Topology Seminar is a semi-annual gathering of topologists from the Pacific Northwest and Southwestern Canada.


Pictures courtesy of Brad Shelton

Fall 2009, Meeting 43: Saturday and Sunday October 24-25

University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon

Saturday October 24:
9:00-10:00 Coffee, tea and snacks, 108 Deady Hall
10:00-11:00 Shelly Harvey Rice UniversityTorsion in the knot concordance group
11:15-12:15 Benjamin Matschke University of WashingtonRectangles on Curves
Lunch
2:00-3:00 Eric Babson UC Davis Fundamental groups of random 2-complexes
3:10-3:40 Sammy Black University of Oregon A statesum formula for the Alexander polynomial
3:40-4:10 Coffee, tea and snacks, 108 Deady Hall
4:10-5:10 Ben Williams Stanford University Applying Motivic Cohomology to Problems in Commutative Algebra

Sunday October 25:
9:00-9:30 Coffee, tea and snacks, Fenton 219 (Math department Lounge)
9:30-10:30 Alejandro Adem University of British Columbia Homotopy Theory and Spaces of Representations
10:40-11:10 Adam Clay University of British ColumbiaThe space of left orderings of a free group
11:20-12:20 Kristine Bauer University of CalgaryCotriple models for calculus without basepoints

All talks will be in 208 Deady Hall, refreshments in 108 Deady Hall on Saturday and in Fenton 219 on Sunday.

Funds may be available to support the participation of graduate students and early career mathematicians. Contact Steve Bleiler (steve@math.pdx.edu) for details.

Directions to campus.

Parking: You may use any university parking lot on the weekend. The lot closest to the talks is at the northeast corner of 11th Avenue and Kincaid. (See map here.)

Lodging information.


The Cascade Topology Seminar is supported in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation, whose support is gratefully acknowledged.


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University of Oregon, Department of Mathematics
cascade@math.uoregon.edu - April 21, 2003