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Mathematics Institute

Low Dimensional Geometry and Topology Summer Events

1st and 2nd May 2009

Organisers: Stefan Friedl, Saul Schleimer and Caroline Series

(PDF Document) Programme AND Abstracts  

Dehn Filling Day, Friday 1 May, Room B3.02

  • 10:45 - 11:45 am Stefan Friedl (Warwick): Introduction to Dehn surgery
Lunch 12:00 - 1:00 in the Maths Common Room
    Cambridge University Press Book Display, Common Room
    • 1:15 - 2:15 pm Marc Lackenby (Oxford): The maximal number of exceptional Dehn fillings
    • 2:30 - 3:30 pm Steve Boyer (UQAM): Toroidal Dehn filling of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
    • 4:00 - 5:00 pm Michel Boileau (Toulouse): Dehn fillings and geometric structures on 3-manifolds


    Cannon-Thurston Day, Saturday 2 May, Room B3.02

    • 9:30 - 10:30 am Caroline Series (Warwick): The Cannon-Thurston map: From round circles to space filling curves
    Coffee 10:30 - 10:45 in the Maths Common Room
    • 10:45 - 11:45 am Brian Bowditch (Warwick): Stacks and the Cannon-Thurston map
    Lunch 12:00 - 1:00 in the Maths Common Room
    • 1:15 - 2:15 pm Makoto Sakuma (Hiroshima): On punctured torus bundles: Comparing two tessellations on the complex plane
    • 3:00 - 4:00 pm Mahan Mj (Vivekananda): Model geometries and the Cannon-Thurston map

     

     

    Aerial photograph of Maths Houses

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    Mathematical Interdisciplinary Research at Warwick (MIR@W)
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