The 25th Annual
Workshop in Geometric Topology
June 26-28, 2008

Workshop Information

Principal Speaker

The featured speaker is Cameron Gordon of the University of Texas at Austin. He will give a series of three one-hour talks on the topology of 3-manifolds. The titles of the three talks are

  1. Exceptional Dehn Surgeries
  2. Dehn Surgery and Unknotting Number
  3. Arborescent Knots with Unknotting Number 1

Contributed Talks

Participants are invited to contribute talks; time will be allotted each day for 20 minute talks by participants. In addition, there will be ample time set aside each day for informal discussions amongst participants.

Support

Financial support, provided by the National Science Foundation, will be available to help defer the travel and living expenses of participants who do not have other funding for their research. Such support can be requested on the registration form. Graduate students and recent PhDs in geometric topology are especially encouraged to apply for support.

Deadlines

May 28. Reservations for hotel rooms in the Treasure Mountain Inn
June 1. Requests for financial support
June 8. Abstracts of contributed talks

Participants

Click here to see a list of currently-registered participants

Proceedings

A proceedings of the conference will be published locally, after the conference ends. Proceedings of several of the most recent workshops are available on-line.

Funding

The workshop is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation and by Brigham Young University's Department of Mathematics.

Organizers

Fredric Ancel, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Dennis Garity, Oregon State University
Craig Guilbault, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Frederick Tinsley, Colorado College
Gerard Venema, Calvin College
David Wright, Brigham Young University

Local Contact

Contact David Wright (send email) if you have questions about the workshop or comments on this web site.