GEOMETRIC TOPOLOGY WORKSHOP
Materials Archive

The Workshops

The Workshops in Geometric Topology are a series of informal research conferences that have been held each year since 1984. Most have been partially supported by grants from the National Science Foundation. Previous workshops have been sponsored by Oregon State University, the Colorado College, Brigham Young University, Calvin University, the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, and Texas Christian University.

Each workshop features a series of three lectures by one principal speaker. This format allows the speaker to give a substantial introduction to an area of current research in geometric topology.

Participants are invited to contribute talks on their own research; time is allotted each day for short talks by participants. In addition, there is ample time set aside each day for informal interactions between participants.

All previous workshops are listed below. Click on recent locations to see the websites for those workshops.

Year	Workshop	Location	Principal Speaker	Archival Materials
2024	41st	Calvin University	Maggie Miller	Videos of principal lectures on the "Surfaces in 4-manifolds"
2023	40th	Colorado College	Andy Putman	Videos of principal lectures on the "The topology of the moduli space of curves"
2022	39th	Held online	Jessica Purcell	All talks from the workshop can be found on a playlist on our YouTube channel
2021	38th	Held online	Peter Bubenik	All talks from the workshop can be found on a playlist on our YouTube channel
2020	37th			Workshop cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2019	36th	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee	Ciprian Manolescu	Problem Session Notes
2018	35th	Calvin College	András Stipsicz	Video of Lecture 1: Invariants of Knots and Links Video of Lecture 2: Knot Floer Homology Video of Lecture 3: The Upsilon Function of Knots
2017	34th	Provo, Utah (BYU)	Moon Duchin
2016	33rd	Colorado College	Nathan Dunfield	Video of Lecture 1: Fun with Finite Covers of 3-Manifolds Video of Lecture 2: A Tale of Two Norms Video of Lecture 3: Floer Homology and Taut Foliations of Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds
2015	32nd	Texas Christian University	Wolfgang Lück	Video of Lecture 1: Introduction to L2-invariants Video of Lecture 2: Introduction to the Farrell-Jones Conjecture Video of Lecture 3: Some Applications to 3-manifolds Slides of Lecture 1: Introduction to L2-invariants Slides of Lecture 2: Introduction to the Farrell-Jones Conjecture Slides of Lecture 3: Some applications to 3-manifolds
2014	31st	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee	Kevin Whyte	Video of Lecture 1: Infinite Groups in Geometric Topology, Part 1 Video of Lecture 2: Infinite Groups in Geometric Topology, Part 2 Video of Lecture 3: Infinite Groups in Geometric Topology, Part 3
2013	30th	Calvin College	Pedro Ontaneda	Video of Lecture 1: Riemannian Hyperbolization Part 1 Video of Lecture 2: Riemannian Hyperbolization Part 2 Video of Lecture 3: Riemannian Hyperbolization Part 3
2012	29th	Oregon State University	Benson Farb	Video of Lecture 1: Permutations and polynomiality in algebra and topology Video of Lecture 2: Surface bundles, mapping class groups, moduli spaces, and cohomology Video of Lecture 3: Reconstruction problems in geometry and topology
2011	28th	Park City Utah (BYU)	David Gabai
2010	27th	Colorado College	Robert Ghrist	Video of Lecture 1: Topology Applied I Video of Lecture 2: Topology Applied II Video of Lecture 3: Topology Applied III
2009	26th	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee	Mladen Bestvina	Video of Lecture 1: PL Morse Theory Part I Video of Lecture 2: PL Morse Theory Part II Video of Lecture 3: PL Morse Theory Part III Expository Article by the Princial Speaker Contributed Article by Tim Schroeder On the three-dimensional Singer conjecture for Coxeter groups Contributed Article by Jason DeBlois Rank gradient and the JSJ decomposition
2008	25th	Park City, Utah (BYU)	Cameron Gordon
2007	24th	Calvin College	Ian Agol	Video of Lecture 1: Volumes of Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds Video of Lecture 2: Finiteness of Arithmetic Hyperbolic Reflection Groups Video of Lecture 3: Applications of Kleinian Groups to 3-Manifold Topology
2006	23rd	Oregon State University	Ruth Charney
2005	22nd	Colorado College	Thomas Farrell
2004	21st	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee	Peter Teichner	Workshop Proceedings
2003	20th	Brigham Young University	Martin Bridson	Workshop Proceedings
2002	19th	Calvin College	Alexander Dranishnikov	Workshop Proceedings
2001	18th	Oregon State University	Abigail Thompson	Workshop Proceedings
2000	17th	Colorado College	Robert Gompf	Workshop Proceedings
1999	16th	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee	Robert Edwards	Workshop Proceedings
1998	15th	Park City Utah (B.Y.U)	Steve Ferry	Workshop Proceedings
1997	14th	Oregon State University	James Cannon	Workshop Proceedings
1996	13th	Colorado College	Michael Freedman	Workshop Proceedings
1995	12th	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee	Shmuel Weinberger	Workshop Proceedings
1994	11th	Brigham Young University	Michael Davis	Workshop Proceedings
1993	10th	Newport, Oregon (O.S.U.)	John Bryant	Workshop Proceedings
1992	9th	Colorado College	Mladen Bestvina	Workshop Proceedings
1991	8th	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee	Andrew Casson	Workshop Proceedings
1990	7th	Oregon State University	Robert Daverman	Workshop Proceedings
1989	6th	Brigham Young University	John Luecke	Workshop Proceedings
1988	5th	Colorado College	John Hempel	Workshop Proceedings
1987	4th	Oregon State University	Robert Edwards	Workshop Proceedings
1986	3rd	Colorado College	John Walsh	Workshop Proceedings
1985	2nd	Colorado College	Robert Daverman
1984	1st	Brigham Young University	none	Workshop Proceedings

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GEOMETRIC TOPOLOGY WORKSHOP Materials Archive

The Workshops

GEOMETRIC TOPOLOGY WORKSHOP
Materials Archive