MONDAY, JUNE 25

08:30    Registration & Coffee (Room 1221)
09:30    Nathan Dunfield
         "The Virtual Haken Conjecture: Experiments and Examples"
10:30    Coffee break (Room 1221)
11:00    Darren Long
         "Manifolds which bound geometrically"

12:00    Lunch

14:00    Alan Reid
         "All flat manifolds are cusps of hyperbolic orbifolds"
15:00    Coffee break (Room 1221)
15:30    Xingru Zhang
         "Dehn fillings of large hyperbolic knot exteriors"
17:00    Reception (Room 6245, 6th floor)
 

TUESDAY, JUNE 26

09:30    Danny Calegari
         "Promoting essential laminations"
10:30    Coffee break (Room 1221)
11:00    Peter Shalen
         "Smallish knots in 3-manifolds", Part I

12:00    Lunch

14:00    Marc Culler
         "Smallish knots in 3-manifolds", Part II
15:00    Coffee break (Room 1221)
15:30    Stephen Kerchoff
         "Deformations of hyperbolic structures"
 

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27

09:30    Marc Lackenby
         "The volume of hyperbolic alternating knot complements"
10:30    Coffee break (Room 1221)
10:45    John Luecke
         "A homology sphere obtained by surgery on infinitely many knots"
11:30    Ying-Qing Wu
         "Immersed surfaces and Dehn filling"
 

THURSDAY, JUNE 28

09:30    Daryl Cooper
         "The Orbifold theorem"
10:30    Coffee break (Room 1221)
11:00    Michel Boileau
         "Hyperbolic cone 3-manifolds and geometrisation of irreducible
         3-orbifolds with infinite fundamental group"

12:00    Lunch

14:00    Joan Porti
         "Spherical orbifolds"
15:00    Coffee break
15:30    Yoav Rieck
         "Heegaard splittings invariant under involutions"
 

FRIDAY, JUNE 29

09:30    Cameron Gordon
         "Exceptional Dehn surgeries"
10:30    Coffee break (Room 1221)
11:00    Stephen Bigelow
         "Homological representations of braid groups"

12:30    Lunch

14:00    Yoav Moriah
         "Connected sums of knots and weakly reducible Heegaard
         splittings"
15:00    Coffee break
15:30    Hyam Rubinstein
         "The generalised Smale conjecture for geometric 3-manifolds"
 

                               MINI-COURSES
                              July 2-6, 2001

MONDAY, JULY 2

08:30    Registration & Coffee (Room 1221)
09:00    Michel Boileau
         "Geometrization of 3-dimensional orbifolds", Part I
10:45    Benson Farb
         "A crash course on the geometry of groups", Part I

12:00    Lunch

14:00    Peter Shalen
         "Representations of 3-manifold groups", Part I
15:15    Coffee break (Room 1221)
15:45    Martin Bridson
         "Non-positively curved spaces and hyperbolic groups", Part I
 

TUESDAY, JULY 3

08:30    Registration & Coffee (Room 1221)
09:00    Michel Boileau
         "Geometrization of 3-dimensional orbifolds", Part II
10:45    Benson Farb
         "A crash course on the geometry of groups", Part II

12:00    Lunch

14:00    Peter Shalen
         "Representations of 3-manifold groups", Part II
15:15    Coffee break (Room 1221)
15:45    Martin Bridson
         "Non-positively curved spaces and hyperbolic groups", Part II
 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 4

08:30    Registration & Coffee (Room 1221)
09:00    Michel Boileau
         "Geometrization of 3-dimensional orbifolds", Part III
10:15    Benson Farb
         "A crash course on the geometry of groups", Part III
11:30    Ruth Charney
         "The geometry of Coxeter and Artin groups", Part I

12:30    Lunch

14:00    Peter Shalen
         "Representations of 3-manifold groups", Part III
15:15    Coffee break (Room 1221)
15:45    Martin Bridson
         "Non-positively curved spaces and hyperbolic groups", Part III
 

THURSDAY, JULY 5

08:30    Registration & Coffee (Room 1221)
09:00     Michel Boileau
         "Geometrization of 3-dimensional orbifolds", Part IV
10:45    Ruth Charney
         "The geometry of Coxeter and Artin groups", Part II

12:00    Lunch

14:00    Peter Shalen
         "Representations of 3-manifold groups", Part IV
15:15    Coffee break (Room 1221)
15:45    Martin Bridson
         "Non-positively curved spaces and hyperbolic groups", Part IV
 

FRIDAY, JULY 6

08:30    Registration & Coffee (Room 1221)
09:00     Michel Boileau
         "Geometrization of 3-dimensional orbifolds", Part V
10:45    Ruth Charney
         "The geometry of Coxeter and Artin groups", Part III

12:00    Lunch

14:00    Peter Shalen
         "Representations of 3-manifold groups", Part V
15:15    Coffee break (Room 1221)
15:45    Martin Bridson
         "Non-positively curved spaces and hyperbolic groups", Part V
 

                    WORKSHOP ON GEOMETRIC GROUP THEORY
                             July 9-13, 2001

MONDAY, JULY 9

08:30    Registration & Coffee (Room 1221)
09:30    Martin Bridson
         "On the geometry and complexity of free-by-cyclic groups"
10:30    Coffee break (Room 1221)
11:00    Alexei Miasnikov
         "Lifting equations into generic points"
 

12:00    Lunch

14:00    Misha Kapovich
         "On representation varieties of the fundamental groups of
         3-manifolds"
15:00    Coffee break (Room 1221)
15:30    Noel Brady
         "Curvature and dimensions of torsion free hyperbolic groups"
17:00    Reception (Room 1221)
 

TUESDAY, JULY 10

09:30    Steven Gersten
         "Filling length and the simple exponential problem"
10:30    Coffee break (Room 1221)
11:00    Michah Sageev
         "Quasi-actions on trees"

12:00    Lunch

14:00    Graham Niblo
         "The Sageev complex for codimension-1 subgroups"
15:15    Igor Lysionok
         "Exceptional infinite Burnside groups"
16:15    Coffee break (Room 1221)
16:45    John Stallings
         "Geometric ideas about the corank of a group"
 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 11

09:30    Iain Aitcheson
         "Cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds have canonical CAT(0) spines"
10:30    Coffee break (Room 1221)
11:00    Room 1355
         Murray Elder
         "The falsification by fellow traveler property implies F3"
         Room 1360
         Max Forester
         "On uniqueness of G-trees"
11:30    Room 1355
         Jan-Mark Iniotakis
         "Recognizing CAT(0) groups with ZxZ-isomorphic subgroups"
         Room 1360
         David Burggraf
         "Geometric Galois Theory and dessins d'enfants"
12:00    Room 1355
         Chris Hruska
         "CAT(0) groups with well-defined boundaries"
         Room 1360
         Stephen Bigelow
         "Representations of mapping class groups"

12:30    Lunch

14:00    Zlil Sela
         "Diophantine geometry over groups and the elementary theory of
         a free group"
15:00    Coffee break
15:30    Room 1355
         Patrick Dehornoy
         "Word redressing and small groups of fractions"
         Room 1360
         Daniel Groves
         "Isoperimetric inequalities for free-by-cyclic groups"
16:00    Room 1355
         Eric Swenson
         "Immersed incompressible surfaces and word hyperbolicity in
         3-manifolds"
         Room 1360
         Tim Riley
         "Asymptotic Cones and Filling Invariants of Finitely Generated
         Groups"
 

THURSDAY, JULY 12

09:30    Bruce Kleiner
         "Uniformizing metric 2-spheres"
10:30    Coffee break (Room 1221)
11:00    Brian Bowditch
         "Ends of hyperbolic 3-manifolds"

12:00    Lunch

14:00    Ilya Kapovich
         "Acylindrical accesibility for groups acting on real trees"
15:00    Coffee break
15:30    Lee Mosher
         "Convex cocompact subgroups of mapping class groups"
 

FRIDAY, JULY 13

09:30    John Meier
         "The topology at infinity of Coxeter groups and buildings"
10:30    Coffee break (Room 1221)
11:00    Olga Kharlampovich
         "Length functions on fully residually free groups and elementary
         theory of a free group"

12:00    Lunch

14:00    Jon McCammond
         "Algorithmic aspects of nonpositive curvature"
15:00    Coffee break
15:30    Paul Schupp
         "Computational Complexity and the Membership Problem"

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