Summer School and Conference on Geometry and Topology of 3-Manifolds

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Monday, 6 June 2005

08:30 - 10:30 REGISTRATION AND ADMINISTRATIVE FORMALITIES

Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
- 08:30 REGISTRATION AND ADMINISTRATIVE FORMALITIES 2h0'
14:15 - 14:30 Opening
- 14:15 Opening 15'

14:30 - 15:30 Introduction to 3-Dimensional Topology - 1

14:30 Introduction to 3-Dimensional Topology - 1 1h0'

Speaker:	C. Petronio (Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italia)
Material:	lecture notes

15:30 - 16:00 Break
- 15:30 Break 30'

16:00 - 17:00 Geometries of 3-Manifolds - 1

16:00 Geometries of 3-Manifolds - 1 1h0'

Speaker:	B. Zimmermann (Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italia)
Material:	lecture notes

Tuesday, 7 June 2005

08:30 - 10:00 Geometries of 3-Manifolds - 2

08:30 Geometries of 3-Manifolds - 2 1h30'

Speaker:	B. Zimmermann (Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italia)
Material:	lecture notes

10:00 - 10:45 Break
- 10:00 Break 45'

10:45 - 12:15 Kleinian Groups - 1

10:45 Kleinian Groups - 1 1h30'

Speaker:	C. Series (University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom)
Material:	lecture notes

12:15 - 14:00 Lunch Break
- 12:15 Lunch Break 1h45'

14:00 - 15:30 Introduction to 3-Dimensional Topology - 2

14:00 Introduction to 3-Dimensional Topology - 2 1h30'

Speaker:	C. Petronio (Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italia)
Material:	lecture notes

15:30 - 16:00 Break
- 15:30 Break 30'

16:00 - 17:00 Geometries of 3-Manifolds - 3

16:00 Geometries of 3-Manifolds - 3 1h0'

Speaker:	B. Zimmermann (Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italia)
Material:	lecture notes

Wednesday, 8 June 2005

08:30 - 10:00 Geometries of 3-Manifolds - 4

08:30 Geometries of 3-Manifolds - 4 1h30'

Speaker:	B. Zimmermann (Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italia)
Material:	lecture notes

10:00 - 10:45 Break
- 10:00 Break 45'

10:45 - 12:15 Kleinian Groups - 2

10:45 Kleinian Groups - 2 1h30'

Speaker:	C. Series (University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom)
Material:	lecture notes

12:15 - 14:00 Lunch Break
- 12:15 Lunch Break 1h45'

14:00 - 15:30 Introduction to Ricci Flow - 1

14:00 Introduction to Ricci Flow - 1 1h30'

Speaker:	C. Sinestrari (Università degli Studi di Tor Vergata, Roma, Italia)
Material:	lecture notes

15:30 - 16:00 Break
- 15:30 Break 30'

16:00 - 17:00 Introduction to 3-Dimensional Topology - 3

16:00 Introduction to 3-Dimensional Topology - 3 1h0'

Speaker:	C. Petronio (Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italia)
Material:	lecture notes

Thursday, 9 June 2005

08:30 - 10:00 Introduction to Ricci Flow - 2

08:30 Introduction to Ricci Flow - 2 1h30'

Speaker:	C. Sinestrari (Università degli Studi di Tor Vergata, Roma, Italia)
Material:	lecture notes

10:00 - 10:45 Break
- 10:00 Break 45'

10:45 - 12:15 Kleinian Groups - 3

10:45 Kleinian Groups - 3 1h30'

Speaker:	C. Series (University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom)
Material:	lecture notes

12:15 - 14:00 Lunch Break
- 12:15 Lunch Break 1h45'

14:00 - 15:00 Introduction to 3-Dimensional Topology - 4

14:00 Introduction to 3-Dimensional Topology - 4 1h0'

Speaker:	C. Petronio (Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italia)
Material:	lecture notes

15:00 - 15:30 Break
- 15:00 Break 30'

15:30 - 17:00 Kleinian Groups - 4

15:30 Kleinian Groups - 4 1h30'

Speaker:	C. Series (University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom)
Material:	lecture notes

Friday, 10 June 2005

08:30 - 10:00 Introduction to Ricci Flow - 3

08:30 Introduction to Ricci Flow - 3 1h30'

Speaker:	C. Sinestrari (Università degli Studi di Tor Vergata, Roma, Italia)
Material:	lecture notes

10:00 - 10:45 Break
- 10:00 Break 45'

10:45 - 12:15 Introduction to 3-Dimensional Topology - 5

10:45 Introduction to 3-Dimensional Topology - 5 1h30'

Speaker:	C. Petronio (Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italia)
Material:	lecture notes

12:15 - 14:00 Lunch Break
- 12:15 Lunch Break 1h45'

14:00 - 15:30 Introduction to Ricci Flow - 4

14:00 Introduction to Ricci Flow - 4 1h30'

Speaker:	C. Sinestrari (Università degli Studi di Tor Vergata, Roma, Italia)
Material:	lecture notes

15:30 - 16:00 Break
- 15:30 Break 30'

16:00 - 17:00 Geometries of 3-Manifolds - 5

16:00 Geometries of 3-Manifolds - 5 1h0'

Speaker:	B. Zimmermann (Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italia)
Material:	lecture notes

Monday, 13 June 2005

08:30 - 10:00 Hyperbolic and Convergence Groups - 1

08:30 Hyperbolic and Convergence Groups - 1 1h30'

Speaker:	S. Maillot (Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France)
Material:	lecture notes

10:00 - 10:45 Break
- 10:00 Break 45'

10:45 - 12:15 Tameness and Marden's Conjecture - 1

10:45 Tameness and Marden's Conjecture - 1 1h30'

Speaker:	J. Souto (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France)
Material:	lecture notes

12:15 - 14:00 Lunch Break
- 12:15 Lunch Break 1h45'

14:00 - 15:30 Ricci Flow with Surgery - 1

14:00 Ricci Flow with Surgery - 1 1h30'

Speaker:	L. Bessières and G. Besson (Université de Grenoble I, St. Martin d'Heres, France)
Material:	lecture notes

15:30 - 16:00 Break
- 15:30 Break 30'

16:00 - 17:00 Cheeger-Gromov Theory - 1

16:00 Cheeger-Gromov Theory - 1 1h0'

Speaker:	M. Boileau (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France)
Material:	lecture notes

Tuesday, 14 June 2005

08:30 - 10:00 Hyperbolic and Convergence Groups - 2

08:30 Hyperbolic and Convergence Groups - 2 1h30'

Speaker:	S. Maillot (Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France)
Material:	lecture notes

10:00 - 10:45 Break
- 10:00 Break 45'

10:45 - 12:15 Tameness and Marden's Conjecture - 2

10:45 Tameness and Marden's Conjecture - 2 1h30'

Speaker:	J. Souto (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France)
Material:	lecture notes

12:15 - 14:00 Lunch Break
- 12:15 Lunch Break 1h45'

14:00 - 15:30 Ricci Flow with Surgery - 2

14:00 Ricci Flow with Surgery - 2 1h30'

Speaker:	L. Bessières and G. Besson (Université de Grenoble I, St. Martin d'Heres, France)
Material:	lecture notes

15:30 - 16:00 Break
- 15:30 Break 30'

16:00 - 17:00 Cheeger-Gromov Theory - 2

16:00 Cheeger-Gromov Theory - 2 1h0'

Speaker:	M. Boileau (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France)
Material:	lecture notes

Wednesday, 15 June 2005

08:30 - 10:00 Cheeger-Gromov Theory - 3

08:30 Cheeger-Gromov Theory - 3 1h30'

Speaker:	M. Boileau (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France)
Material:	lecture notes

10:00 - 10:45 Break
- 10:00 Break 45'

10:45 - 12:15 Ricci Flow with Surgery - 3

10:45 Ricci Flow with Surgery - 3 1h30'

Speaker:	L. Bessières and G. Besson (Université de Grenoble I, St. Martin d'Heres, France)
Material:	lecture notes

12:15 - 14:00 Lunch Break
- 12:15 Lunch Break 1h45'

Thursday, 16 June 2005

08:30 - 10:00 Hyperbolic and Convergence Groups - 3

08:30 Hyperbolic and Convergence Groups - 3 1h30'

Speaker:	S. Maillot (Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France)
Material:	lecture notes

10:00 - 10:45 Break
- 10:00 Break 45'

10:45 - 12:15 Tameness and Marden's Conjecture - 3

10:45 Tameness and Marden's Conjecture - 3 1h30'

Speaker:	J. Souto (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France)
Material:	lecture notes

12:15 - 14:00 Lunch Break
- 12:15 Lunch Break 1h45'

14:00 - 15:30 Ricci Flow with Surgery - 4

14:00 Ricci Flow with Surgery - 4 1h30'

Speaker:	L. Bessières and G. Besson (Université de Grenoble I, St. Martin d'Heres, France)
Material:	lecture notes

15:30 - 16:00 Break
- 15:30 Break 30'

16:00 - 17:00 Cheeger-Gromov Theory - 4

16:00 Cheeger-Gromov Theory - 4 1h0'

Speaker:	M. Boileau (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France)
Material:	lecture notes

Friday, 17 June 2005

08:30 - 10:00 Hyperbolic and Convergence Groups - 4

08:30 Hyperbolic and Convergence Groups - 4 1h30'

Speaker:	S. Maillot (Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France)
Material:	lecture notes

10:00 - 10:45 Break
- 10:00 Break 45'

10:45 - 12:15 Tameness and Marden's Conjecture - 4

10:45 Tameness and Marden's Conjecture - 4 1h30'

Speaker:	J. Souto (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France)
Material:	lecture notes

12:15 - 14:00 Lunch Break
- 12:15 Lunch Break 1h45'

14:00 - 15:30 Ricci Flow with Surgery - 5

14:00 Ricci Flow with Surgery - 5 1h30'

Speaker:	L. Bessières and G. Besson (Université de Grenoble I, St. Martin d'Heres, France)
Material:	lecture notes

Monday, 20 June 2005

09:15 - 10:00 Volumes of hyperbolic Haken 3-manifolds

09:15 Volumes of hyperbolic Haken 3-manifolds 45'

Speaker:	I. Agol (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Material:	transparencies

10:15 - 11:00 Heegaard splittings, pants decompositions of surfaces and volumes of hyperbolic 3-manifolds

10:15 Heegaard splittings, pants decompositions of surfaces and volumes of hyperbolic 3-manifolds 45'

Speaker:	J. Brock (Brown University, Providence, USA)
Material:	transparencies

11:00 - 11:45 Break -- REGISTRATION (for NEW ARRIVALS only) in the Adriatico Guest House, Lower Level 1.
- 11:00 Break -- REGISTRATION (for NEW ARRIVALS only) in the Adriatico Guest House, Lower Level 1. 45'

11:45 - 12:30 Hyperbolic and spherical volume for knots, links and polyhedra

11:45 Hyperbolic and spherical volume for knots, links and polyhedra 45'

Speaker:	A.D. Mednykh (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk, Russia)
Material:	transparencies

12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
- 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'

14:30 - 15:15 Hyperbolic volume and classical topology

14:30 Hyperbolic volume and classical topology 45'

Speaker:	P.B. Shalen (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Material:	transparencies

15:30 - 16:00 Dehn surgery on links in 3-manifolds

15:30 Dehn surgery on links in 3-manifolds 30'

Speaker:	B. Martelli (Università di Pisa, Italy)
Material:	transparencies

16:00 - 16:45 Break
- 16:00 Break 45'

16:45 - 17:15 On dilogarithms of triangles in the complex plane

16:45 On dilogarithms of triangles in the complex plane 30'

Speaker:	S. Baseilhac (Université de Grenoble I, St Martin d'Heres)
Material:	transparencies

17:30 - 18:00 Rigidity of cone-3-manifolds

17:30 Rigidity of cone-3-manifolds 30'

Speaker:	H. Weiss (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany)
Material:	transparencies

Tuesday, 21 June 2005

09:15 - 10:00 The rank of the fundamental group of hyperbolic 3-manifolds fibering over the circle
- 09:15 The rank of the fundamental group of hyperbolic 3-manifolds fibering over the circle 45'
  
  Speaker: J. Souto (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France)

10:15 - 11:00 Minimal hyperbolic 3-manifolds and character varieties

10:15 Minimal hyperbolic 3-manifolds and character varieties 45'

Speaker:	S. Boyer (Université du Quebec a Montreal, Canada)
Material:	transparencies

11:00 - 11:45 Break
- 11:00 Break 45'

11:45 - 12:30 Covering spaces of orbifolds

11:45 Covering spaces of orbifolds 45'

Speaker:	M. Lackenby (University of Oxford, U.K.)
Material:	transparencies

12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
- 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'

14:30 - 15:15 Roots of 3-manifolds, cobordisms, knotted graphs, and orbifolds

14:30 Roots of 3-manifolds, cobordisms, knotted graphs, and orbifolds 45'

Speaker:	S. Matveev (Chelyabinsk State University, Russia)
Material:	transparencies

15:15 - 16:00 Break
- 15:15 Break 45'
16:00 - 16:30 A spherical decomposition for open Riemannian 3-manifolds
- 16:00 A spherical decomposition for open Riemannian 3-manifolds 30'
  
  Speaker: S. Maillot (Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France)

16:45 - 17:15 Wild branching surfaces and topological 4-manifolds

16:45 Wild branching surfaces and topological 4-manifolds 30'

Speaker:	R. Piergallini (Università di Camerino, Italy)
Material:	transparencies

Wednesday, 22 June 2005

08:45 - 09:30 A homotopic intersection theory on surfaces. Applications to mapping class groups and braids

08:45 A homotopic intersection theory on surfaces. Applications to mapping class groups and braids 45'

Speaker:	B. Perron (Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France)
Material:	transparencies

09:45 - 10:30 1-domination between 3-manifolds and between knots

09:45 1-domination between 3-manifolds and between knots 45'

Speaker:	S. Wang (Peking University, Beijing, P.R. China)
Material:	transparencies

10:30 - 11:15 Break
- 10:30 Break 45'

11:15 - 12:00 Does a random 3-manifold fiber over the circle?

11:15 Does a random 3-manifold fiber over the circle? 45'

Speaker:	N. Dunfield (CALTECH, Pasadena, USA)
Material:	transparencies

12:15 - 13:00 Deformations of reducible representations of 3-manifold groups into PSL(2,C)

12:15 Deformations of reducible representations of 3-manifold groups into PSL(2,C) 45'

Speaker:	M. Heusener (Université Blaise Pascal, Aubiere, France)
Material:	transparencies

Thursday, 23 June 2005

09:15 - 10:00 Pseudo-conformal Geometry and 3-Manifolds

09:15 Pseudo-conformal Geometry and 3-Manifolds 45'

Speaker:	D. Cooper (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Material:	transparencies

10:15 - 11:00 Cohomological dimension and critical exponent of Kleinian groups
- 10:15 Cohomological dimension and critical exponent of Kleinian groups 45'
  
  Speaker: M. Kapovich (University of California, Davis, USA)
11:00 - 11:45 Break
- 11:00 Break 45'
11:45 - 12:30 Floer homology and the A-polynomial
- 11:45 Floer homology and the A-polynomial 45'
  
  Speaker: O. Collin (Université du Quebec a Montreal, Canada)
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
- 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'

14:30 - 15:15 A combination theorem for convex hyperbolic manifolds with applications to surfaces in 3-manifolds

14:30 A combination theorem for convex hyperbolic manifolds with applications to surfaces in 3-manifolds 45'

Speaker:	M. Baker (Université de Rennes I, France)
Material:	transparencies

15:30 - 16:00 Determining prime satellite knots by means of their cyclic branched covers

15:30 Determining prime satellite knots by means of their cyclic branched covers 30'

Speaker:	L. Paoluzzi (Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France)
Material:	transparencies

16:00 - 16:45 Break
- 16:00 Break 45'

16:45 - 17:15 Uncountably many Kleinian groups and mapping class groups

16:45 Uncountably many Kleinian groups and mapping class groups 30'

Speaker:	R. Frigerio (Università di Pisa, Italy)
Material:	transparencies

17:30 - 18:00 How efficiently do 3-manifolds bound 4-manifolds?

17:30 How efficiently do 3-manifolds bound 4-manifolds? 30'

Speaker:	D. Thurston (Harvard University, Cambridge, USA)
Material:	transparencies

Friday, 24 June 2005

09:15 - 10:00 Computation of geometric structures on 3-dimensional orbifolds and manifolds

09:15 Computation of geometric structures on 3-dimensional orbifolds and manifolds 45'

Speaker:	C.D. Hodgson (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Material:	transparencies

10:15 - 11:00 LERF, extensions and covers of 3-manifolds
- 10:15 LERF, extensions and covers of 3-manifolds 45'
  
  Speaker: A.W. Reid (University of Texas, Austin, USA)
11:00 - 11:45 Break
- 11:00 Break 45'

11:45 - 12:30 The density conjecture for Kleinian groups with bounded geometry

11:45 The density conjecture for Kleinian groups with bounded geometry 45'

Speaker:	K. Bromberg (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA)
Material:	transparencies

12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
- 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'

14:30 - 15:15 Spherical cone structures on 2-bridge knots and links

14:30 Spherical cone structures on 2-bridge knots and links 45'

Speaker:	J. Porti (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona)
Material:	transparencies

15:15 - 16:00 Break
- 15:15 Break 45'

16:00 - 16:30 Finite groups acting on homology spheres

16:00 Finite groups acting on homology spheres 30'

Speaker:	M. Mecchia (Università di Trieste, Italy)
Material:	transparencies

16:45 - 17:15 Lines of minima in Teichmueller space
- 16:45 Lines of minima in Teichmueller space 30'
  
  Speaker: Y.-E. Choi (University of California, Davis, USA)