Texas Geometry and Topology Conference

Schedule


Friday, November 9
2:00-5:00pm Arrival and Registration   Herman Brown Building
Room 220
5:00-6:00pm Howard Masur Winning sets for Schmidt games, badly approximable real numbers, rational billiards and geodesics in moduli space Anderson Biological Lab 131
6:00-7:30pm Buffet dinner   Herman Brown Building
7:30-8:30pm Yunhui Wu TBA Anderson Biological Lab 131
9:00pm Transportation to Holiday Inn Hotel Keck Parking Lot next to Herman Brown Building

Saturday, November 10

8:00am and 9:00am Transportation to Rice University Front of Holiday Inn Hotel
8:30-9:30am Continental Breakfast   Dell Butcher Hall Foyer
9:30-10:30am Samuel Grushevsky Stable cohomology of the perfect cone toroidal compactification of A_g

Dell Butcher Hall 180
10:30-11:00am Coffee Break   Dell Butcher Hall Foyer
11:00-12:00pm Tom Church Stability in the unstable cohomology of mapping class groups, SL_n(Z), and Aut(F_n) Dell Butcher Hall 180
12:00-2:00pm Break for Lunch   Rice Village
2:00-3:00pm Sarah Koch An analytic construction of the Deligne-Mumford compactification of the moduli space of curves Dell Butcher Hall 180
3:00-3:30pm Coffee Break   Dell Butcher Hall Foyer
3:30-4:30pm Gavril Farkas Classification of universal Jacobians over the moduli space of curves Dell Butcher Hall 180
5:00-7:00pm Poster Session   Herman Brown Building 4th Floor
7:45pm Transportation to Holiday Inn Hotel Keck Parking Lot next to Herman Brown Building

Sunday, November 11
8:00am and 9:00am Transportation to Rice University Front of Holiday Inn Hotel
8:30-9:30am Continental Breakfast   Dell Butcher Hall Foyer
9:30-10:30am Matthew Bainbridge Effective Veech dichotomy and diagonal flows Dell Butcher Hall 180
10:30-11:00am Coffee Break   Dell Butcher Hall Foyer
11:00am-12:00pm Eduard Looijenga Cohomological amplitude of moduli spaces of curves Dell Butcher Hall 180

Updated November 8, 2012