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November 2006

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Date: 12 Nov 2006
From: Topology News
Subject: Topology News, November 2006 


Topology News, November 2006

KNOTS IN WASHINGTON XXIII 
Set theory and its neighbours, 14
Geometry, Topology, and their Interactions
G^3
Topology and Geometry of Moduli Spaces
N+3rd Southern California Topology Conference
Appalachian Set Theory
Geometric Topology Conference - Beijing 2007
Dubrovnik VI - Geometric Topology
University of Florida, Year in Logic

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KNOTS IN WASHINGTON XXIII 
Quandles- their homology and ramifications
November 17-19 , 2006

http://home.gwu.edu/%7Eprzytyck/knots/knotsinwashington23.htm

The 23rd Conference on Knot Theory and its Ramifications George Washington
University, Washington, DC
 
Partially supported by NSF and Math. Department of GWU  

The conference will start at 1:00PM on Friday November 17, with Colloquium
(introductory plenary talk) by Alissa Crans.
 
The conference is devoted to Knot Theory and its Ramifications. Quandles
and their homology will be the main topic but other parts of Knot Theory
will be presented as well.

Plenary speakers include: Scott Carter, Alissa Crans, Michael Eisermann,
Mohamed Elhamdadia, Masahico Saito, Shin Satoh and Kheira Ameur
(Distinguished graduate student talk)
 
If you wish to give a talk please submit your abstract at:
http://atlas-conferences.com/cgi-bin/abstract/submit/catp-01
 
Abstracts can be viewed at:  
http://atlas-conferences.com/cgi-bin/abstract/catp-01
 
Conference Organizers: 
Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), 
Yongwu Rong (GWU), 
Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU), 
 

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Set theory and its neighbours, 10
22nd November

Dear Colleague

This message is to give initial information about the fourteenth one-day
meeting in the series "Set theory and its neighbours", which will take
place on Wednesday 22nd NOVEMBER 2006 at the Department of Mathematics,
University College London, which is situated at 25 Gordon Street, London
WC1H 0AH.

The first talk will be at 1pm. The last talk should finish by 6pm.

The meeting will start at 12noon, by which time those wishing to lunch
together should meet in room 606 of the Department of Mathematics.

The speakers at the meeting will be:
Riccardo Camerlo (Turin)
Greg Piper (tbc)
Shingo Saito  (University College London)
Philip Welch (Bristol)

More information, including titles, will be available as we confirm it via
the meetings' web-page:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucahcjm/stn.html

As ever, we hope to keep the meeting fairly relaxed, allowing plenty of
opportunity for informal discussion. We welcome and encourage anyone to
participate. You are very welcome simply to turn up on the day if you make
a late decision. And we hope as many attendees as possible will be able to
join us for informal discussions at the end of the talks section of the
meeting.

Please do tell anyone about the meeting who you think may be interested in
it. And let us know if you would like to speak or have ideas for speakers
at future meetings.

We are very grateful to the LMS for partially funding the meeting and to
University College for allowing us to use 25 Gordon Square as a venue.

(The nearest tube stations to 25 Gordon Square are Euston and Euston
Square (each 2 mins walk), but it is also only a short walk from Warren
Street stations.)

Best wishes,
Charles

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Geometry, Topology, and their Interactions
Morelia, Mexico
January 8-13, 2007

http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~jlafont/MoreliaConf.html

This conference will bring together mathematicians who use geometric
methods to study topological problems and mathematicians who use
topological methods to study geometric problems, for example, geometric
group theorists with high dimensional topologists.

The conference is held in honor of the mathematical contributions of Tom
Farrell and Lowell Jones.

On the weekend of January 6-7 there will be two series of introductory
lectures on geometric group theory and controlled topology, targeted at
graduate students and postdocs.

Speakers at the conference include: Alejandro Adem, Igor Belegradek, Ken
Brown, Fred Cohen, Chris Connell, Frank Connolly, Mike Davis, Tsachik
Gelander, Ian Hambleton, Luis Hernandez-Lamoneda, Bruce Hughes, Tadeusz
Januszkiewicz, Lizhen Ji, Qayum Khan, Bruce Kleiner, Chris Leininger, Peter
Linnell, Bob Oliver, Ivonne Ortiz, Erik Pedersen, Frank Quinn, M. S.
Raghunathan, Holger Reich, Xiaochun Rong, Ben Schmidt, Anna Wienhard, Kevin
Wortman, and Guoliang Yu.

The conference is partially funded by a grant from the NSF and by the
Insituto de Mathemticas-UNAM, Unidad Morelia.  Travel support for Canadians
is available through PIMS.  Some limited funds will be available to help
cover the costs of attending the conference.  Graduate students and
postdocs are particularly encouraged to apply.

Further information is available on the web site listed above.

If you have any questions, contact one of the organizers: Jim Davis
(Indiana University), Daniel Juan-Pineda (IM-UNAM), Jean-Francois Lafont
(Ohio State University), Stratos Prassidis (Canisius College)

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G^3 = Geometric Groups on the Gulf Coast
http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~mineyev/ggg/

The next G3 will be Tuesday - Friday, January 9-12, 2007, in New Orleans,
LA.  This will be right after the AMS meeting in New Orleans. Also see the
answers to questions (http://www.ams.org/amsmtgs/2098_faq.html#will) about
having a conference in New Orleans at their website. It pretty much says
that everything will be fine (in case you cave any concerns). If you are
coming for that AMS meeting, just extend your stay. The G3 conference will
start in the morning on Tuesday and finish in the afternoon on Friday. The
best would be to arrive on January 8 and to leave either late in the
evening on January 12, or on January 13.

As usual, we will start with a few educational talks. Those are oriented
toward students, non-experts, general audience. We encourage
students/recent PhD, and also women and minorities to apply by sending a
short description of their research (and mentioning what they are asking
for). We will try to give preference to those who do not give talks at the
AMS meeting, for more participation, so if you do, please mention that.  
Those students who share a room will have preference for room
reimbursement.

Do not be affraid to meet people whom you see for the first time. This has 
been arranged on purpose.

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

Let us know if you expect attending the conference. (Acceptable answers: 
"yes", "maybe", or "coming with probability ...".) This will help our 
planning. 

We are looking for people with digital cameras to take pictures during the 
conference.

Hotel: We are planning to stay at Doubletree Hotel New Orleans 300 Canal
Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States 70130-1010 Tel:
+1-504-581-1300 Fax: +1-504-522-4100 When making reservations, please
mention "GGG conference", this is the name of our group (!). The group
rate should be $99 plus 12% tax plus maybe something else.

Abstracts: http://atlas-conferences.com/cgi-bin/abstract/catr-01

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Topology and Geometry of Moduli Spaces
Mathematics Research Center
Stanford University
January 12-15, 2007

Speakers:
Francis Bonahon,  University of Southern California
Benson Farb,  University of Chicago
Kenji Fukaya,  Kyoto University
Tom Graber,  Caltech
Hichael Hopkins,  Harvard University
Eduard Looijenga,  University of Utrecht
Ib Madsen, Aarhus University
Yair Minsky, Yale University
Curt McMullen, Harvard University
Maryam Mirakhani,  Princeton University
Shigeyuki Morita,  University of Tokyo
Paul Seidel,  University of Chicago
Karen Vogtmann,  Cornell University
S.-T. Yau, Harvard University

http://web.mac.com/rlcohen/iWeb/Site/Conference.html

This is the opening conference of a three year emphasis program on the
topology and geometry of moduli spaces sponsored by the Mathematics
Research Center of the Department of Mathematics at Stanford, in
cooperation with the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM).

A limited amount of funding will be available. Preference will be given to
young researchers and those who have no other funding source available to
them.

Organizing Committee:
R.L. Cohen
Y. Eliashberg
S. Galatius
E. Ionel
S.P. Kerckhoff
J. Li
R. Vakil

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N+3rd Southern California Topology Conference
Saturday January 20th, 2007
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA, USA

http://www.its.caltech.edu/~dannyc/sctc/sctc2007.html

Annual 1-day Conference in Low-Dimensional Topology, held at Caltech.

Some travel and accomodation support is available for graduate students 
(especially those coming from Northern California). Please contact Danny 
Calegari by email. 

Schedule of talks:
Benson Farb, U Chicago 10:30-11:30 am
Ko Honda, USC 1:30-2:30 pm
Henry Segerman, Stanford 2:45-3:45 pm
Amie Wilkinson, Northwestern 4-5 pm

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Appalachian Set Theory
Charlotte, North Carolina
January 27, 2007

Stevo Todorcevic (University of Toronto and CNRS, Paris) will lead a
day-long workshop titled "Coherent sequences" at the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte to be hosted and organized by Alan Dow.  The topic
is the method of minimal walks and its applications.  Those wishing to
attend may apply to have some of their travel expenses reimbursed.

The workshop series webpage is
http://www.math.cmu.edu/~eschimme/Appalachian/Index.html
Please check there for additional details and updates.

Appalachian set theory is supported by the National Science Foundation.

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Geometric Topology Conference - Beijing 2007
June 18-22, 2007
Peking University, Beijing, China

http://www.math.pku.edu.cn/gt2007/

This Conference in Geometric Topology is aimed at reflecting the current
state of the art in the study of low dimensional topology and related
subjects. The specific range of topics we intend to cover is well
represented by the interests of the members of the advisory committee. 

The Organizing Committee 

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International Conference Dubrovnik VI - Geometric Topology
September 30 - October 7,  2007
                                                          
(First Announcement)

The Inter-University Center in Dubrovnik, Croatia, is hosting the
conference DUBROVNIK VI - GEOMETRIC TOPOLOGY to be held September 30 -
October 7, 2007.

We would like to invite you to participate in this conference. Many
participants of the last conference have indicated their intent to attend
the 2007 conference.

We expect that important new results will be reported and we hope for an
atmosphere of lively exchange. Your participation would add much to this
event.

The city of Dubrovnik is a beautiful city with a rich history. The
Inter-University Center will provide convenient facilities for our work
together. Those who have attended the past five meetings there have
pleasant memories of the surroundings as well as the stimulating
intellectual exchange that took place.

The journal TOPOLOGY AND ITS APPLICATIONS has agreed to publish the
proceeding of this conference.

We do not have finances to be able to cover your expenses, but we hope
that you will be able to arrange support from your university or other
sources.

Organizers:
A. N. Dranishnikov, University of Florida, Gainesville 
Ivan Ivansic, University of Zagreb 
J. E. Keesling, University of Florida, Gainesville 
Sime Ungar, University of Zagreb 

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University of Florida 
Year in Logic
September 2006 - June 2007
Supported by the National Science Foundation

http://www.math.ufl.edu/~jal/logicyear/

Events: 

September 15-17, 2006, Combinatorial set theory

November 1-5, 2006, Computability and complexity in analysis

February 5-10, 2007, Model theory and computable model theory

March 05-11, 2007, Singular cardinal combinatorics and inner models

March 10-13, 2007, Association for Symbolic Logic Annual Meeting

May 05-11, 2007, Set theory of the reals

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