Cascade Topology Seminar

  • Start Date: 11/19/2011
  • End Date: 11/20/2011
Speaker(s):
  • Ryan Budney - University of Victoria
  • Whitney George - University of Georgia
  • John Ratcliffe - Vanderbilt University
  • Kristine Pelatt - University of Oregon
  • Gordana Matic - University of Georgia
Location: 

Portland State University, Oregon

Topic: 

Topics in this session include:

 

Some simple triangulations

 

Twist knots and the uniform thickness property

 

Right-angled Coxeter polytopes, hyperbolic 6-manifolds, and a problem of Siegel

 

Geometric representatives of homology classes in the space of knots

 

+ more topics to follow

Description: 

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

Organizers:

Steve Bleiler (bleilers@pdx.edu),

Dale Rolfsen (rolfsen@math.ubc.ca)

Other Information: 

A block of rooms has been reserved at University Place on the Portland State
University campus. For more information on University Place, please see http://www.pdx.edu/conferences/university-place-hotel-conference-center.

 

For general information about the Cascade Ropology Seminar, visit the official web site: http://www.mth.pdx.edu/events/cts/.

Sponsor: 

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