October 5-9, 2015

** All talks will take place in Simonyi Hall Seminar Room

Monday, 10/5

10:00 am - 11:00 am Feng Luo, Rutgers "Rigidity of the hexagonal triangulation of the plane and its applications"

11:00 am - 11:30 am COFFEE BREAK, Simonyi Hall Classroom

11:30 am - 12:30 pm Ian Biringer, Boston College, "Iteration in Schottky space"

12:30 pm - 2:30 pm LUNCH, Dining Hall

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm Tarik Aougab, Yale "Effective short conjugators and volumes of fibered 3-manifolds from the curve and pants complexes"

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm TEA, Fuld Hall Common Room

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Thang Le, Georgia Tech "On growth of homology in finite coverings"

 

Tuesday, 10/6

10:00 am - 11:00 am Richard Kent, IAS "Skinning maps"

11:00 am - 11:30 am COFFEE BREAK, Simonyi Hall Classroom

11:30 am - 12:30 pm Marc Culler, Univ of Illinois, "PE character varieties and orderability for Dehn fillings of knot complements"

12:30 pm - 2:30 pm LUNCH, Dining Hall

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm Julien Marché, IMJ, "Differential geometry on the character variety"

Abstract: We study the character variety of 3-manifolds groups into SL_2(C) and some natural structures on it like symplectic and volume forms.

We will relate these structures to the Kauffman module at order 1 with some applications to the asymptotics of quantum invariants.

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm TEA, Fuld Hall Common Room

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Hongbin Sun, UC Berkeley, "Virtual domination of 3-manifolds"

Abstract: By constructing certain immersed $\pi_1$-injective 2-complexes in closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds, we show the following statement: For any closed oriented hyperbolic 3-manifold M, and any closed oriented 3-manifold N, M admits a finite cover M′ such that there exists a degree-2 map f : M′ → N, i.e. M virtually 2-dominates N.

 

Wednesday, 10/7

10:00 am - 11:00 am Genevieve Walsh, Tufts, "Boundaries of Kleinian groups"

11:00 am - 11:30 am COFFEE BREAK, Simonyi Hall Classroom

11:30 am - 12:30 pm Jessica Purcell, IAS "Geometry of planar surfaces and exceptional fillings"

12:30 pm - 2:30 pm LUNCH, Dining Hall

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm David Futer, IAS, "Change in length under Dehn fillingt

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm TEA, Fuld Hall Common Room

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Jeremy Kahn, IAS, "Finding cocompact Fuchsian groups of given trace field and quaternian algebra"

 

Thursday, 10/8

10:00 am - 11:00 am Jeff Brock, Brown, "Inflexibility, renormalized volume, and Weil-Petersson geometry"

11:00 am - 11:30 am COFFEE BREAK, Simonyi Hall Classroom

11:30 am - 12:30 pm Bogwang Jeon, Columbia Univ, "Hyperbolic 3-manifolds of bounded volume and trace field degree"

Abstract: In this talk, I present my proof of the conjecture that there are only a finite number of hyperbolic 3-manifolds of bounded volume and trace field degree.

12:30 pm - 2:30 pm LUNCH, Dining Hall

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm Anastasiia Tsvietkova, UC Davis, "A refined upper bound for the volume of links and the colored Jones polynomial"

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm TEA, Fuld Hall Common Room

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Yi Liu, Caltech, "Aspirality and separability for surface subgroups in 3-manifold groups"

 

Friday, 10/9

10:00 am - 11:00 am Maria Trnkova, Caltech, "Triangulation of exceptional hyperbolic 3-manifolds"

11:00 am - 11:30 am COFFEE BREAK, Simonyi Hall Classroom

11:30 am - 12:30 pm David Gabai, IAS "On the classification of Heegaard splittings"

12:30 pm - 2:30 pm LUNCH, Dining Hall

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