Sponsored by
Boston College
HMI
NSF
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The 2nd
William Rowan
Hamilton Geometry and
Topology Workshop
September
28-30, 2006
The Hamilton
Mathematics
Institute,
Trinity College Dublin
Surface
Groups in Low Dimensional
Topology
and Geometric
Group Theory
Co-sponsored by
Boston College,
the Hamilton Mathematics Institute,
and the
National Science
Foundation
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Speakers
Josh Barnard (U Oklahoma)
Benson Farb (Chicago)
Daniel Groves (Caltech)
Richard Kent (UT Austin)
Chris Leininger (UIUC)
Darren Long (UCSB)
Denis Osin (CUNY)
Michah Sageev (Technion)
Caroline Series (Warwick)
Genevieve Walsh (Tufts)
Bert Wiest (Rennes)
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Organizing Committee
Noel Brady (University of Oklahoma, USA)
Tom Brady (Dublin City University)
Martin Bridgeman (Boston College, USA)
Martin Bridson (Imperial College London, England)
Siddhartha Sen (Trinity College Dublin)
Dmitri Zaitsev (Trinity College Dublin) |
The Workshop
The
William Rowan Hamilton
Geometry
and Topology Workshop is an annual directed workshop held at the
Hamilton Mathematics Institute (HMI), Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. The topic for the 2006 workshop is Surface Groups in Low
Dimensional Topology and Geometric Group Theory. The workshop will focus on common themes and techniques
for producing closed hyperbolic surface subgroups in the following
three areas.
Mapping class groups
Constructing
closed surface groups in mapping class groups.
Existence of purely pseudo-Anosov closed hyperbolic surface subgroups
in mapping class groups.
3-manifold
groups
Closed surface groups in
3-manifold
groups.
Virtual Haken and Virtual Fibering conjectures. Surfaces and cubings of
3-manifold groups.
Geometric
Group Theory
Ubiquity of closed
hyperbolic surface
subgroups in various classes of groups;
hyperbolic groups, Coxeter groups, Artin groups. Relatively hyperbolic
groups and hyperbolic Dehn filling.
Goals
The goal of the William Rowan Hamilton Geometery and Topology
Workshop is to provide a forum in which the international
geometry and topology community can meet annually with its European
counterpart to discuss topics of an interdisciplinary nature. A major
anticipated outcome of these annual workshops is the determination of
future research directions, and the generation of a list of open
problems in the topics of focus. The workshop has a permanent
website at http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~hmi/events/gt/gt.htm/,
where these problem lists and any lecture notes that the participants
provide will be posted. Furthermore, the HMI intends to have a
preprint series, whereby hard copies of the workshop results can be
disseminated to research institutions worldwide.
Sponsors
Boston College, the HMI, and the NSF have
generously provided
grants to co-sponsor this event as part of
their commitment to fostering ties between the US scientific community
and the European scientific community.
Contact Information
If you have any questions, contact the organizers at mbridge@maths.tcd.ie
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