"Umbilic Torus 3 . (1,1)"  H. Ferguson 1987
Sponsored by:
   Institute of Math. Science (UVa)
   Department of Mathematics (UVa)
   National Science Foundation

Organizing Committee:
   Slava Krushkal (UVa)
   Frank Quinn (Virginia Tech)
The objective of the conference is to bring together researchers working on different aspects of low-dimensional topology, including Floer homology, the Ricci flow program, and more "classical" geometric topology, with the goal of looking for connections and unifying perspectives. A theme in several of these areas is that subtle relationships between a 4-manifold and its boundary constrain and illuminate both 3- and 4-dimensional topology. We propose this as a framework for comparing existing approaches and formulating key problems.


Confirmed Participants
I. Agol (UIC)
J. Andersen (Aarhus)
J. Behrstock (Columbia)
L. Bowen (Indiana U.)
W. Chen (Tulane)
T. Cochran (Rice)
J. Conant (U. of Tennessee)
J. Doran (Yale)
R. Dotzel (U. of Missouri)
N. Dunfield (Caltech)
R. Edwards (UCLA)
E. Eftekhary (Harvard)
H. Ferguson
W. Floyd (Virginia Tech)
S. Forcey (Virginia Tech)
J. Fowler (U. of Chicago)
S. Friedl (Rice)
I. Gkigkitzis (Columbia)
C. Gordon (U. of Texas)
R. Guo (Rutgers)
I. Hambleton (McMaster)
S. Harvey (MIT)
M. Kapovich (UC Davis)
M. Khovanov (UC Davis)
H. Kim (Brandeis)
T. Kim (Rice)
B. Kleiner (U. of Michigan)
S. Krushkal (UVa)
C. Lakhani (North Carolina St.)
T. Lawson (Tulane)
Y. Lee (Purdue)
C. Leidy (UPenn)
T. Li (Oklahoma St.)
W. Li (Oklahoma St.)
C. McIntosh (Wesleyan U.)
S. Melikhov (U. of Florida)
A. Mozgova (Avignon)
Y. Ni (Princeton)
K. Orr (Indiana U.)
B. Owens (Cornell)
W. Pan (Wesleyan U.)
O. Plamenevskaya (MIT)
F. Quinn (Virginia Tech)
S. Rajagopalan (Brandeis)
J. Rasmussen (Princeton)
Y. Rong (George Washington)
L. Rozansky (Chapel Hill)
D. Ruberman (Brandeis)
R. Rustamov (Princeton)
R. Sadykov (U. of Florida)
R. Schneiderman (NYU)
A. Shumakovitch (Dartmouth)
D. Silver (U. of South Alabama)
Z. Szabó (Princeton)
W. Whitten (Lynchburg)
S. Williams (U. of South Alabama)
Support is available for graduate students and recent Ph.D.'s.

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