| Schedule |
| Friday |
| 6:30 - 8:00 pm, TTC 139 |
| Complimentary pizza dinner |
| 8:00 - 9:00 pm, TTC 138 |
| Tara Brendle, Louisiana State University |
| Wicket Groups and Ring Groups |
| Saturday |
| 9:00 - 9:30 am, TTC 139 |
| Solid Tori and Coffee |
| 9:30 - 10:30 am, TTC 243 |
| Dick Canary, University of Michigan |
| Introductory Bumponomics: Deformation Theory of Kleinian Groups |
| 11:00 - noon, TTC 243 |
| Christina Sormani, CUNY Graduate Center and Lehman College |
| The Covering Spectrum of a Riemannian Manifold |
| noon - 1:30 pm |
| Lunch on your own |
| 1:30 - 2:30 pm, TTC 243 |
| Steve Ferry, Rutgers University |
| Higson's Compactification and the Novikov Conjecture |
| 3:00 - 4:00 pm, TTC 243 |
| Paul Loya, Binghamton University |
| Gluing Formulas for the Spectral Invariants of Dirac Operators |
| 4:30 - 5:30 pm, TTC 243 |
| Greg Friedman, Texas Christian University |
| Intersection Homology and Poincare Duality on Homotopically Stratified Spaces |
| 6:30 - 8:30 pm, Blue Mesa Grill |
| Banquet |
| Sunday |
| 9:00 - 9:30 am, TTC 139 |
| Solid Tori and Coffee |
| 9:30 - 10:30 am, TTC 138 |
| J.M. Landsberg, Texas A&M University |
| Projective Rigidity and Flexibility of Homogeneous Varieties |
| 11:00 - noon, TTC 138 |
| Robin Hartshorne, University of California at Berkeley |
| Gorenstein Liaison of Algebraic Varieties |
| Registration and Conference Details |
| The Texas Geometry and Topology Conference is supported by the National Science Foundation, Texas Christian University, and the University of Texas at Arlington. Everyone is welcome. There are no registration fees. |
| The conference is committed to the strengthening and enrichment of the mathematics personnel base. We will be able to offer some support for expenses. Graduate students, junior faculty, women, minorities, and persons with disabilities are especially encouraged to participate and to apply for support. |
| The Spring 2007 meeting of the Texas Geometry and Topology Conference will begin Friday evening with a complimentary dinner. The conference will continue all day Saturday, and until noon on Sunday. On Saturday night, we will have the traditional banquet, which will be held at Blue Mesa Grill and will cost $20 per participant. |
| All talks will be in the Tucker Technology Center (TTC), 2840 West Bowie Street, Fort Worth, TX. There is plenty of free parking in the lot just north of TTC (on W. Lowden Street). For driving directions, please see the maps included on the Lodging web page. |
| Registration |
| Lodging |