Texas Geometry and Topology Conference at TCU
 
Hosted by Texas Christian University and University of Texas at Arlington
 
March 23 - 25, 2007
 

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