Low Dimensional Geometry and Topology Summer Events

1st and 2nd May 2009

Organisers: Stefan Friedl, Saul Schleimer and Caroline Series

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