Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar
Wasatch Topology Conference

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT

Saturday and Sunday
April 28-29, 2001

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SCHEDULE

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Saturday, April 28
9:30-10:30	Alan Reid (University of Texas, Austin) Geometric boundaries of hyperbolic manifolds
10:45-11:45	Tao Li (University of Texas, Austin) Immersed surfaces, Dehn surgery and nonpositive cubing of 3-manifolds
2:00-3:00	Yair Minsky (SUNY, Stony Brook) Combinatorics and geometry in hyperbolic 3-manifolds
3:15-4:15	Sumio Yamada (Cornell) Weil-Petersson geometry of Teichmüller spaces and the Thurston classification of surface diffeomorphisms
4:30-5:30	Jiaping Wang (University of Minnesota) Harmonic functions and topology of complete manifolds
7:00	Dinner
Sunday, April 29
9:15-10:15	Mu-Tao Wang (Stanford) Super-rigidity and fixed point theorem
10:30-11:30	Alexander Nabutovsky (University of Toronto) Arithmetic groups and variational problems for Riemannian functionals
11:45-12:30	Problem Session

All talks will take place in the John Widtsoe Building (JWB, Mathematics Department), Room 335.

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