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November 2005

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Date: 9 Nov 2005
From: Topology News
Subject: Topology News, November 2005

Topology News, November 2005

KiWXXI: Skein modules, Khovanov homology and Hochschild homology
Winter 2005 Wasatch Topology Conference
Second Workshop on Coverings, Selections and Games in Topology
Conference on Lattice-Ordered Groups and f-Rings 
Workshop on 3-manifolds after Perelman
G3 = Geometric Group Theory on the Gulf Coast Conference
Arkansas Spring Lecture Series: Geometric Group Theory
21st British Topology Meeting
Topology Proceedings, Volume 29, Number 1 (2005)

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KNOTS IN WASHINGTON XXI:
Skein modules, Khovanov homology and Hochschild homology
December 9-11, 2005
The 21th Conference on Knot Theory and its Ramifications
George Washington University, Washington, DC

http://home.gwu.edu/%7Eprzytyck/knots/index.html

This regional conference is held every semester, in various locations in 
the Washington area.

Plenary speakers include: Mikhail Khovanov
Speakers include: L. Helme-Guizon, J.H. Przytycki, Y. Rong, A. Shumakovitch

Conference Organizers: Jozef H. Przytycki, Yongwu Rong, Alexander Shumakovitch

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Winter 2005 Wasatch Topology Conference

The Mathematics departments of the University of Utah and Brigham Young
University along with the National Science Foundation are sponsoring the
Twenty-second Semiannual Wasatch Topology Conference to be held December
14 to December 16, 2005 in Park City Utah.

The conference is being organized by Mladen Bestvina, Ken Bromberg and 
Greg Conner.

Speakers: Peter Brinkman, Technische Universität Berlin; Daryl Cooper,
UCSB; Cameron Gordon, University of Texas; Cyril Lecuire, CRM Barcelona;
Misha Kapovich, UC Davis; Steve Kerckhoff, Stanford; Bruce Kleiner, Yale;
Ben McReynolds, University of Texas; Saul Schleimer, Rutgers, New
Brunswick; Jennifer Schultens, UC Davis; Karen Vogtman, Cornell.

http://www.math.utah.edu/wtc/

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Second Workshop on Coverings, Selections and Games in Topology (SPM05)
Final announcement

The meeting will be held at the Department of Mathematics, University of
Lecce, Italy, during December 19 - 22, 2005.

The study of Selection Principles in Mathematics has experienced rapid
expansion during the past few years with a large number of mathematicians
contributing to the area, and entering the area. The combination of
classical and modern methods has led to fascinating breakthroughs and to
complete solutions of some of the oldest open problems (1920s and 1930s)
in the field. A large number of new problems covering a variety of topics
in mathematics have been identified.

Though Selection Principles in Mathematics had its beginnings mostly in
the study of covering properties of topological spaces that were
introduced by Menger (1924), Hurewicz (1925), Rothberger (1937) and
Sierpinski (1937), the field has become vastly wider. There are currently
several well-defined focus areas in Selection Principles in Mathematics,
including:
Distributivity properties in Boolean algebras;
Combinatorial properties of filters on the natural numbers;
Boundedness properties in topological groups;
Closure- and convergence- properties in function spaces;
Combinatorial cardinal characteristics of the continuum;
Selective screenability and covering dimension;
Covering properties of topological spaces.

The aim of the workshop is to survey current directions and learn about
current results and open problems in this area through 12 plenary talks
and a variety of shorter contributed talks.

The plenary speakers are:
Liljana Babinkostova (Boise State University, USA);
Taras Banakh (Frank Lviv University, Ukraine);
Lev Bukovsky (P. J. Safarik University, Slovakia);
Filippo Cammaroto (University of Messina, Italy);
Guiseppe Di Maio (Second University of Napoli, Italy);
Ljubisa Kocinac (University of Nis, Serbia);
Heike Mildenberger (University of Vienna, Austria);
Arnold Miller (University of Wisconsin, USA);
Masami Sakai (Kanagawa University, Japan);
Marion Scheepers (Boise State University, USA);
Boaz Tsaban (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel);
Lubomyr Zdomsky (Frank Lviv University, Ukraine)

In addition, the following mathematicians are planning to attend the meeting:
Natasha Dobrinen (Austria); Mirna Dzamonja, Shingo Saito (Britain);
Dimitris Georgiou, Stavros Iliadis (Greece); Bella Angelo, Giuliano
Artico, Maddalena Bonanzinga, Cosimo De Mitri, Rosalba Festelli, Anna
Frascella, Eraldo Giuli, Cosimo Guido, Domenico Lenzi, Umberto Marconi,
Roberto Moresco, Elena Musio, Josef Myjak, Giorgio Nordo, Bruno Antonio
Pansera, Paola Toto (Italy); Shahram Rezapour (Iran); Han Sang-Eon (Korea); 
Beti Andonovic (Macedonia); Sina Greenwood (New Zealand); Jacek Cichon, 
Adam Krawczyk, Marcin Kysiak, Wieslaw Kubis, Michal Machura, Aleksander 
Maliszewski, Andrzej Nowik, Szymon Plewik (Poland); Djurcic Dragan, Darko 
Kocev, Vladimir Pavlovic, Malisa Zizovic (Serbia); Charly Makitu (South 
Africa); Tadeusz Dobrowolski (USA).

Additional participants in this fascinating event are welcome.

Information on traveling to Lecce and on accommodations is available at
the workshop web sites (check regularly for updates). The URLs are:
 (Italy) http://www.matematica.unile.it/mostra_avviso.asp?n=136
 (Boise) http://diamond.boisestate.edu/~spm/Lecce2/index.htm

Please submit abstracts not later than November 30, 2005, at
http://atlas-conferences.com/cgi-bin/abstract/submit/caqh-01

Submitted abstracts can be viewed at
http://atlas-conferences.com/cgi-bin/abstract/caqh-01

The current list of sponsors for the meeting includes:
 The University of Lecce
 Department of Mathematics "E. De Giorgi" -
 University of Lecce
 Atlas Conferences

The scientific committee:
 Liljana Babinkostova,
 Cosimo Guido,
 Ljubisa D.R. Kocinac,
 Marion Scheepers,
 Boaz Tsaban.

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Conference on Lattice-Ordered Groups and f-Rings
University of Florida, Gainesville
March 9th through 11th, 2006

http://www.math.ufl.edu/~jmartine/ord06.html

Anticipated Speakers:
R. Ball, University of Denver
B. Banaschewski, McMaster University
M. Escardo, University of Edinburgh
A. Hager, Wesleyan University 
M. Henriksen, Harvey Mudd College
D. Johnson 
R. Lowen, University of Antwerp
F. Lucas, University of Angers
J. Ma, University of Houston Clear Lake
J. Madden, Louisiana State University
W. McGovern, Bowling Green State University
F. Montagna, University of Siena
C. Mulvey, University of Sussex
D. Mundici, University of Florence
A. Di Nola, University of Salerno
A. Pultr, Charles University
C. Tsinakis, Vanderbilt University
E. Zenk, Vanderbilt University

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Workshop on 3-manifolds after Perelman

A workshop, run through the ICMS Edinburgh, will be held at Heriot-Watt
University, from March 13--17 2006.

The workshop aims to set out directions for future research in 3-manifold
topology in light of the recent major developments in the subject. These
include, Perelman's probable proof of Thurston's Geometrization
Conjecture, the proof of Thurston's Ending Lamination Conjecture, Marden's
Tameness Conjecture and the development of Heegaard Floer homology theory.

Details about speakers, format of the workshop, application for funding, 
registration, and accommodation are available at:

http://www.icms.org.uk/meetings/2006/3-manifolds/index.html

In addition to ICMS funding, we have applied to NSF for funding to help US
based graduate students and postdocs attend the workshop.

Organizing Committee: Cameron Gordon, Jim Howie, and Alan Reid

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G3 = Geometric Group Theory on the Gulf Coast Conference
Thursday-Sunday, March 16-19, 2006, Mobile, AL.

The next G3 conference will take place on Thursday-Sunday, March 16-19, 
2006, in Mobile, AL. The conference will start on Thursday morning with 
several educational talks for general audience and finish around noon on 
Sunday.

Mobile is of course right on the gulf coast. For more information please 
see the G3 homepage at
http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~mineyev/ggg/

The G3 conference resembles geometric group theory itself -- it lets 
algebra, geometry, topology and analysis interact. We invite experts in 
these fields, and the educational talks at the beginning of the conference 
are designed with students and recent Ph.D. in mind. They are very much 
encouraged to attend. If you would like to apply for a talk, please send 
your graduation year, a short description of your research, the title and 
abstract soon, preferably before the end of January. This is a small 
conference, so it will be absolutely impossible to give a talk for 
everyone. There will be a designated place in the conference room for 
everyone's papers/preprints. Please bring multiple copies to discuss and 
share with others.

Conference organizers: Stephen Brick, Craig Jensen, Igor Mineyev.

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Arkansas Spring Lecture Series: Geometric Group Theory
Principal Speaker: Martin Bridson
April 5-8, 2006
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR, USA

http://www.uark.edu/depts/mathinfo/activities/SpringLecture.html

Organizers: Chaim Goodman-Strauss Yo'av Rieck

The department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Arkansas is
pleased to announce: Thirty-First Arkansas Spring Lectures "Geometric
Group Theory" Martin Bridson, principal speaker Fayetteville, Arkansas,
April 5-8, 2006 Background talks: April 4, 2006. Professor Bridson will
deliver a total of seven lectures on the state of contemporary Geometric
Group Theory. Topics will include: limit groups, free group automorphisms,
free by cyclic groups, dimension for groups (cohomolgical, topological,
CAT(0), action etc.) CAT(0) spaces, the geometry of word problem, balanced
presentations and the Andrews-Curtis Conjecture, Grothendieck ambiguity,
Deficiency, and the conjugacy and isomorphism problems.

The conference presents an excellent opportunity for graduate students and
young researchers to gain an overview of Geometric Group Theory. In
addition, before the main conference, there will be a day of preliminary
talks aimed at graduate students, April 4.

Invited speakers include: Daniel Alcock, University of Texas, Austin;
Mladen Bestvina, Utah (to be confirmed); Noel Brady, University of
Oklahoma; Jim Cannon, Brigham Young University; Mike Davis, Ohio State
University; Peter Kropholler, University of Glasgow; Walter Neumann,
Columbia; Mark Sapir, Vanderbilt; John Stallings, UC Berkeley; Karen
Vogtmann, Cornell; Tim Riley, Cornell (preliminary day)

The conference web page will be available November 15th at: 
http://www.uark.edu/depts/mathinfo/activities/SpringLecture.html 
Information about talks, travel, funding, banquet etc can be found on 
this page. 

There is no registration fee, however, to help us organize the conference
we ask that all participants register by filling out the web page above.

Pending NSF funding, limited support will be available. Priority will be
given to junior researchers, graduate students and members of
under-represented groups, including women, minorities and the physically
disabled. If you wish to apply for support, as funds will be limited, we
recommend you do so as soon as possible.

There will be a number of contributed twenty-minute talks by young
researchers and graduate students. If you wish to be considered for a
contributed talk, please let us know by February 15, 2006.

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21st British Topology Meeting
September 11th-13th 2006
Gregynog Hall, mid Wales

http://www-maths.swan.ac.uk/btm21/

The 21st British Topology Meeting will take place at Gregynog Hall, Powys, 
Wales, September 11th-13th, 2006.

The aim is to provide British Topologists with an opportunity to meet and
discuss their own research, to listen to lectures from international
specialists, and to provide a friendly audience for postgraduate students
giving perhaps their first conference talks.

The meeting is organized by Martin Crossley of the University of Wales
Swansea, and is supported by a Scheme 1 grant from the London Mathematical
Society. Postgraduate students are particularly encouraged to come to the
meeting, and the grant should pay for all their travel and accommodation.

The British Topology homepage 
http://www.maths.gla.ac.uk/~ajb/btop.html
has more information about topological activities in Britain, including a 
list of previous British Topology Meetings.

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Topology Proceedings 
Volume 29, Number 1 (2005) 	

Available online at Topology Atlas to subscribers at
http://at.yorku.ca/b/a/a/a/36.htm

Please see the journal homepage for subscription information
http://topology.auburn.edu/tp/

Contents of Volume 29, Number 1 (2005)

Mohammad Abry, Jan J. Dijkstra and Jan van Mill
Sums of almost zero-dimensional spaces

Liljana Babinkostova
Selective screenability game and covering dimension

David P. Bellamy
Certain analytic preimages of pseudocircles are pseudocircles

J. Bustamante, Samuel G. Moreno and J. M. Quesada
Best approximation and wrappings

Janusz J. Charatonik and Wodzimierz J. Charatonik
Connectedness properties of Whitney levels

Janusz J. Charatonik and Héctor Méndez-Lango
Periodic-recurrent property for a class of $\lambda$-dendroids

Debora Di Caprio and Stephen Watson
Continuous selections and purely topological convex structures

Alan Dow
Efimov spaces and the splitting number

Benjamin Espinoza
Whitney preserving maps onto decomposition spaces

Paul Fabel
Homeomorphisms of $\overline{U} \times \mathbb{R}$ and rotation number

Ying Ge
Mappings in Ponomarev-systems

Fernando Hernandez-Hernandez and Michael Hrusák
Q-sets and normality of $\Psi$-spaces

Yasushi Hirata and Nobuyuki Kemoto
The hereditarily collectionwise Hausdorff property in products of $\omega_1$

W. T. Ingram
Two-pass maps and indecomposability of inverse limits of graphs

Francis Jordan
When are local connectivity functions connectivity?

Kenneth Kunen
Small locally compact linearly Lindelöf spaces

Shou Lin
Covering properties of k-semistratifiable spaces

Chuan Liu
Notes on g-metrizable spaces

T. B. M. McMaster and C. R. Turner
Realizable repetition patterns in constrained total negation

Andres Millán
A crowded Q-point under CPA_prism^game

Arnold W. Miller
On squares of spaces and $F_\sigma$-sets

Takahisa Miyata and Tadashi Watanabe
Approximate sequences and Hausdorff dimension

Sam B. Nadler, Jr.
Absolute cones

Akio Noguchi
A functional equation for the Lefschetz zeta functions of infinite cyclic 
coverings with an application to knot theory

Kevin M. Pilgrim
Julia sets as Gromov boundaries following V. Nekrashevych

Kim Ruane
CAT(0) boundaries of truncated hyperbolic space

Carl Seaquist, Kasia Binam, Rob Street and Galen E. Turner, III
Orientable one-circuit double covers

Jon W. Short
Dense arc components in weakened topological groups

Yoshio Tanaka
Products of weak topologies

H. Murat Tuncali, E. D. Tymchatyn and Vesko Valov
Extensional dimension and completion of maps

Vladimir Uspenskij
A short proof of a theorem of Morton Brown on chains of cells

Kaori Yamazaki:
Some theorems on base-normality

Douglas E. Cameron and Andre Duhoux:
P. S. Urysohn: new aspects on his death

A. Lelek:
Dilemma in topology (and in Science): bizarre vs. common

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