April 19-21, 2013
Rice University, Houston, Texas
Program and Abstracts
Map of Meeting Room LocationsFriday, April 19 |
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| 3:00-5:00pm | Arrival and Registration | Herman Brown Building Room 220 |
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| 5:00-6:00pm | Jesse Johnson | An introduction to Heegaard splittings (overview talk for graduate students) | Herman Brown Building Room 227 |
| 6:15pm | Dinner in Rice Village | Rice Village | |
Saturday, April 20 | |||
| 8:30-9:00am | Continental Breakfast | Walking directions from the Hilton to Dell Butcher Hall | Dell Butcher Hall Foyer |
| 9:00-10:00am | Jesse Johnson | The structure of high distance Heegaard splittings | Dell Butcher Hall 180 |
| 10:00-10:30am | Break | Dell Butcher Hall Foyer | |
| 10:30-11:30am | Maggy Tomova | Distance and the cabling conjecture | Dell Butcher Hall 180 |
| 11:30am-1:30pm | Lunch in Rice Village | Rice Village | |
| 1:30-2:30pm | William Jaco | Minimal triangulations of 3-manifolds | Dell Butcher Hall 180 |
| 2:30-2:45pm | Break | Dell Butcher Hall Foyer | |
| 2:45-3:45pm | Tao Li | Rank and genus of 3-manifolds | Dell Butcher Hall 180 |
| 3:45-4:15pm | Break | Dell Butcher Hall Foyer | |
| 4:15-5:15pm | Ian Agol | The virtual Haken conjecture | Dell Butcher Hall 180 |
| 5:30pm | Dinner in Rice Village | Rice Village | |
Sunday, April 21 |
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| 8:30-9:00am | Continental Breakfast | Dell Butcher Hall Foyer | |
| 9:00-10:00am | Saul Schleimer | Curves in the Masur domain | Dell Butcher Hall 180 |
| 10:00-10:30am | Break | Dell Butcher Hall Foyer | |
| 10:30-11:30am | Peter Shalen | Diameter and homology of hyperbolic 3-manifolds | Dell Butcher Hall 180 |
| 11:30am-12:00pm | Break | Dell Butcher Hall Foyer | |
| 12:00-1:00pm | Cameron Gordon | Left-orderability of 3-manifold groups | Dell Butcher Hall 180 |