The following schedule is tentative and will be updated as the time of the workshop approaches.
All talks will take place in the meeting room for Treasure Mountain Inn. Click on the title of a talk to see an abstract (pdf). Click here to download a printable one-page schedule.
Wednesday, June 25
Thursday, June 26
Time Speaker Title
8:15-8:55 a.m. Registration
8:55-9:00 a.m. Welcome
9:00-10:00 am Cameron Gordon Exceptional Dehn Surgeries
10:00-10:30 a.m. Break
10:30-10:50 a.m. Robert Myers Concordance of Seifert surfaces
11:00-11:20 a.m. Thomas Mattman Commensurability Classes of (-2,3,n) pretzel knots
11:30-11:50 a.m. Heather Russell The Bar-Natan skein module of the solid torus and connections to the (n,n) Springer variety
12:00-1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30-1:50 p.m. Leonard Rubin Universal Compacta, Cohomological Dimension, and Direct Systems
2:00-2:20 p.m. Brendon LaBuz Genralized paths, uniform covering maps, and the first shape group
2:30-2:50 p.m. Christopher Mooney Cell-Like Maps of CAT(0) Boundaries and Bestvina's Question
3:00-3:30 p.m. Tim Schroeder Geometrization of 3-dimensional Coxeter orbifolds
3:30-3:50 p.m. Dennis Garity On Bing Whitehead Cantor Sets
4:00-4:20 p.m. Craig Guilbault End behavior of manifolds and complexes admitting group actions
Friday, June 27
Time Speaker Title
8:15-8:55 a.m. Announcements
8:55-9:00 a.m. Welcome
9:00-10:00 am Cameron Gordon Dehn Surgery and Unknotting Number
10:00-10:30 a.m. Break
10:30-10:50 a.m. Martin Scharlemann Reconfiguring Qiu's proof of the Gordon Conjecture
11:00-11:20 a.m. Alexander Coward Detecting the bridge number of hyperbolic knots
11:30-11:50 a.m. Brandy Guntel Dean Knots
12:00-1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30-1:50 p.m. Sungmo Kang Reducible and Toroidal Dehn filling with distance 3
2:00-2:20 p.m. Maggy Tomova Cut-disks for level spheres in link and tangle complements
2:30-2:50 p.m. Jason DeBlois Incompressible surfaces, hyperbolic volume, and homology
3:00-3:30 p.m. Free Time
3:30-3:50 p.m. Sangbum Cho A finite presentation of the Goeritz group
4:00-4:20 p.m. Jessica Purcell Cusp areas of Farey manifolds and applicatin to knot theory
Saturday, June 28
Time Speaker Title
8:55-9:00 a.m. Welcome
9:00-10:00 am Cameron Gordon Arborescent Knots with Unknotting Number 1
10:00-10:30 a.m. Break
10:30-10:50 a.m. Denise Halverson Survey on the Bing-Borsuk conjecture and the Busemann conjecture
11:00-11:20 a.m. Vera Tonic TBA
11:30-11:50 a.m. Tadek Dobrowalski TBA
12:00-12:30 p.m. Problem Session
12:30-2:00 p.m. Lunch
2:30-7:00 p.m. Outing to Timpanogos Trail