Workshop on 3-manifolds after Perelman
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, 13-17 March 2006
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Workshop structure
The workshop consisted of four series of three one-hour lectures plus eleven one-hour contributed talks. The first of each series of lectures was introductory.Some of the lecture notes are available as links from the timetable entries. Click here to go to the timetable.
Lecturers
The following each gave a series of three one-hour lectures:Jeffrey Brock (Brown University)
Marc Lackenby (University of Oxford)
Peter Ozsvath (Columbia University)
Peter Shalen (University of Illinois at Chicago)
The following each gave a one-hour lecture on their work :
Ian Agol (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Michel Boileau (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)
Brian H Bowditch (University of Southampton)
Martin Bridson (Imperial College)
Shelly Harvey (Rice University)
Craig Hodgson (University of Melbourne)
Cyril Lecuire (Centre de Recerca Matemŕtica)
Hyam Rubinstein (University of Melbourne)
Zlil Sela (Hebrew University)
Stephan Tillmann (Université du Québec ŕ Montréal)
Richard Weidmann (University of Frankfurt)
Programme
Monday 13 March
| 09.00 - 10.00 | Marc Lackenby (University of Oxford) Talk 1: Covering spaces of 3-manifolds |
| 10.15 - 11.15 | Michel Boileau (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse) Non-zero degree maps between 3-manifolds |
| 11.15 - 11.45 | Coffee |
| 11.45 - 12.45 | Peter Ozsváth (Columbia University) Talk 1: Heegaard diagrams and holomorphic disks |
| 12.45 - 14.30 | Lunch break, with lunch at 13.00 |
| 14.30 - 15.30 | Jeffrey Brock (Brown University) Talk 1: The classification of hyperbolic 3-manifolds, an overview |
| 15.30 - 16.00 | Tea/Coffee |
| 16.00 - 17.00 | Richard Weidmann (University of Frankfurt) Foldings, the rank problem and Nielsen equivalence |
Tuesday 14 March
| 09.00 - 10.00 | Peter Shalen (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Talk 1: Classical 3-manifold topology and hyperbolic volume |
| 10.15 - 11.15 | Ian Agol (University of Illinois at Chicago) Finiteness of arithmetic reflection groups |
| 11.15 - 11.45 | Coffee |
| 11.45 - 12.45 | Shelly Harvey
(Rice University) Group theoretic invariants of links and 3-manifolds |
| 12.45 - 14.30 | Lunch break, with lunch at 13.00 |
| 14.30 - 15.30 | Marc Lackenby
(University of Oxford) Talk 2: Covering spaces of 3-manifolds |
| 15.30 - 16.00 | Tea/Coffee |
| 16.00 - 17.00 | Martin Bridson
(Imperial College) Mapping tori of free-group automorphisms |
Wednesday 15 March
| 09.00 - 10.00 | Peter Ozsváth (Columbia University) Talk 2: Heegaard diagrams and holomorphic disks |
| 10.15 - 11.15 | Jeffrey Brock
(Brown University) Talk 2: Drilling, pants decompositions, and ending laminations |
| 11.15 - 11.45 | Coffee |
| 11.45 - 12.45 | Peter Shalen (University of Illinois at Chicago) Talk 2: Classical 3-manifold topology and hyperbolic volume |
| 12.45 - 14.30 | Lunch break, with lunch at 13.00 |
| 14.30 onwards | Free time |
Thursday 16 March
| 09.00 - 10.00 | Stephan Tillmann (Université du Québec ŕ Montréal) When ideal characters are tropical...... |
| 10.15 - 11.15 | Craig Hodgson
(University of Melbourne) Computation of geometric structures on 3-dimensional orbifolds and manifolds |
| 11.15 - 11.45 | Coffee |
| 11.45 - 12.45 | Marc Lackenby
(University of Oxford) Talk 3: Covering spaces of 3-manifolds |
| 12.45 - 14.30 | Lunch break, with lunch at 13.00 |
| 14.30 - 15.30 | Peter Ozsváth
(Columbia University) Talk 3: Heegaard diagrams and holomorphic disks |
| 15.30 - 16.00 | Tea/Coffee |
| 16.00 - 17.00 | Zlil Sela
(Hebrew University) Some applications of low dimensional topology to model theory |
| 19.00 | Workshop Dinner, College Lounge, Heriot-Watt University (dress informal) |
Friday 17 March
| 09.00 - 10.00 | Jeffrey Brock
(Brown University) Talk 3: The geometry of hyperbolic 3-manifolds via Heegaard splittings |
| 10.15 - 11.15 | Brian H Bowditch
(University of Southampton) Models for hyperbolic 3-manifolds |
| 11.15 - 11.45 | Coffee |
| 11.45 - 12.45 | Peter Shalen
(University of Illinois at Chicago) Talk 3: Classical 3-manifold topology and hyperbolic volume |
| 12.45 - 14.30 | Lunch break, with lunch at 13.00 |
| 14.30 - 15.30 | Cyril Lecuire (Centre de Recerca Matemŕtica) Sequences of Kleinian groups |
| 15.30 - 16.00 | Tea/Coffee |
| 16.00 - 17.00 | Hyam Rubinstein
(University of Melbourne) Homotopy invariance of Casson's invariant |
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Participants List
20 March 2006
| Name | Institution |
| Agol, Ian | University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Anderson, James | University of Southampton |
| Aramayona, Javier | University of Warwick |
| Atkinson, Christopher | University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Baker, Mark | Université Rennes 1 |
| Baker, Kenneth | University of Georgia |
| Belolipetsky, Mikhail | Durham University |
| Bleiler, Steven | Portland State University |
| Boileau, Michel | Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse |
| Bowden, Dylan | Heriot-Watt University |
| Bowditch, Brian | University of Southampton |
| Bridson, Martin | Imperial College London |
| Brock, Jeffrey | Brown University |
| Bromberg, Kenneth | University of Utah |
| Callahan, Jason | University of Texas at Austin |
| Canary, Richard | University of Michigan |
| Chan, Ken Yin Kwan | Stanford University |
| Choi, Suhyoung | Korean Advanced Institute of Science & Technology |
| Cochran, Tim | Rice University |
| Cooper, Daryl | University of California at Santa Barbara |
| Coward, Alexander | Oxford University |
| Derby-Talbot, Ryan | University of Texas at Austin |
| Easson, Vivien | Cambridge University |
| Evans, Richard | University of Auckland |
| Francaviglia, Stefano | Universitat Autonòma Barcelona |
| Frigerio, Roberto | Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa |
| Gal, Swiatoslaw | Université de Neuchâtel |
| Glock, Janina | JW Goethe University |
| Gordon, Cameron | University of Texas at Austin |
| Grigsby, Julia | UC Berkeley |
| Harvey, Shelly | Rice University |
| Hedden, Matthew | Princeton/MIT |
| Hodgson, Craig | University of Melboune |
| Hog-Angeloni, Cynthia | JW Goethe University |
| Holt, John | Massey University |
| Horn, Peter | Rice University |
| Howie, Jim | Heriot-Watt University |
| Jaudon, Ghislain | University of Geneva |
| Jones, Kerry | Ball State University |
| Kang, Sungmo | University of Texas at Austin |
| Kedra, Jaroslaw | University of Aberdeen |
| Kent, Richard | University of Texas at Austin |
| Kidwell, Mark | U.S. Naval Academy |
| Kim, Seongtag | Inha University |
| King, Simon | Technical University Darmstadt |
| Klaff, Ben | University of Texas at Austin |
| Kokarev, Gerasim | University of Edinburgh |
| Kopteva, Natalia | Université de Provence |
| Kurlin, Vitaliy | University of Liverpool |
| Lackenby, Marc | University of Oxford |
| Lecuire, Cyril | Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM) |
| Leidy, Constance | University of Pennsylvania |
| Licata, Joan | Yale University |
| Lickorish, Raymond | University of Cambridge |
| Long, Cormac | University of Southampton |
| Mathews, Daniel | Stanford University |
| Metzler, Wolfgang | JW Goethe-Universität |
| Moriah, Yoav | Technion, Israel Institute of Technology |
| Nakamura, Kei | University of California, Davis |
| Oszváth, Peter | Columbia University |
| Parker, John | Durham University |
| Parlier, Hugo | University of Geneva |
| Preaux, Jean-Philippe | Université de Provence |
| Purcell, Jessica | University of Texas at Austin |
| Rafalski, Shawn | University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Ranicki, Andrew | University of Edinburgh |
| Ratcliffe, John | Vanderbilt University |
| Reid, Alan | University of Austin at Texas |
| Rollin, Yann | Imperial College, London |
| Rosebrock, Stephan | Pädagogische Hochschule Karlsruhe |
| Rubinstein, J. Hyam | University of Melbourne |
| Saeed, Muhammad | Heriot-Watt University |
| Sakasai, Takuya | University of Tokyo |
| Schleimer, Saul | Rutgers University |
| Sela, Zlil | Hebrew University of Jeruslem |
| Series, Caroline | University of Warwick |
| Shalen, Peter | University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Short, Hamish | Université de Provence |
| Smith, Graham | Max Planck Institute |
| Suh, Chan-Ho | University of California |
| Szabo, Richard | Heriot-Watt University |
| Szepietowski, Blazej | Gdansk University |
| Tillmann, Stephan | Université du Québec à Montréal |
| Walsh, Genevieve | University of Texas at Austin |
| Wang, Jiajun | UC Berkeley & Columbia University |
| Weidmann, Richard | University of Frankfurt |
| Williams, Gerald | University of Kent |
| Wong, Helen | Yale University |
| Zupunski, Eric | University of Michigan |
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