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Workshop Schedule
A tentative schedule is indicated below. All talks are in Room 10 on the lower level of the
Science Building (SB 10).
Thursday, June 13
| Time |
Speaker |
Title |
| 8:00 - 12:00 |
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Registration, North Hall 270 |
| 8:00 - 9:00 |
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Continental Breakfast, North Hall 282 |
| 9:00 - 9:05 |
President Gaylen Byker |
Welcome to Calvin College, SB 010 |
| 9:10 - 10:10 |
Alexander Dranishnikov |
Dimension Theory: local and global, I |
| 10:10 - 10:40 |
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Morning Break |
| 10:40 - 11:10 |
Steve Ferry |
Embedding homology manifolds in codimension 2 |
| 11:15 - 11:30 |
Heather Johnston |
The coarse Borel conjecture, bounded surgery groups and non-uniformly contractible spaces |
| 11:35 - 11:50 |
Bruce Hughes |
Trees, ultrametrics and C*-algebras |
| 11:55 - 12:10 |
Jim Turner |
When is a manifold triangulated? Revisiting a classical result from the viewpoint of homotopy theory |
| 12:10 - 2:00 |
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Lunch Break |
| 2:00 - 2:50 |
Jerzy Dydak |
The algebra of dimension theory |
| 3:00 - 3:15 |
Akira Koyama |
On embedding of compacta into the product of curves |
| 3:20 - 3:35 |
Nikolay Brodsky |
Global sections in Serre fibration with fibers homeomorphic to 3-manifold |
| 3:35 - 4:00 |
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Afternoon Break |
| 4:00- 4:15 |
Umed Karimov |
On Nonstrictly Contractible Polyhedra |
| 4:20 - 4:35 |
Tadek Dobrowolski |
On certain i-d compacta and an application |
| 4:40 - 4:55 |
Mikhail Shchukin |
Homogeneous C*-algebras |
| 5:00 - 5:15 |
Leonard Rubin |
G-acyclic resolutions for metrizable compacta |
Friday, June 14
| Time |
Speaker |
Title |
| 8:15 - 9:00 |
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Continental Breakfast, North Hall 282 |
| 9:00 - 10:00 |
Alexander Dranishnikov |
Dimension Theory: local and global, II |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
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Morning Break |
| 10:30 - 10:45 |
Hanspeter Fischer |
On homotopy properties of certain Coxeter group boundaries |
| 10:50 - 11:05 |
Ric Ancel |
Distinguishing Croke-Kleiner Boundaries |
| 11:10 - 11:25 |
Fred Tinsley |
Perfect subgroups of HNN extensions |
| 11:30 - 11:45 |
David Radcliffe |
Unique factorization of graph products of groups |
| 11:50 - 12:05 |
Greg Bell |
Property A for groups acting on metric spaces |
| 12:00 - 2:00 |
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Lunch Break |
| 2:00 - 2:50 |
Craig Guilbault |
Taming manifolds that are wild at infinity |
| 3:00 - 3:15 |
Nikolai Ivanov |
Centalizers in the braid groups |
| 3:20 - 3:35 |
Lawrence Brenton |
Multiply connected models in cosmology |
| 3:35 - 4:00 |
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Afternoon Break |
| 4:00- 4:15 |
Tony Bedenikovic |
A description of ribbon disk complements |
| 4:20 - 4:35 |
Paul Fabel |
A complete group of wild braids |
| 4:40 - 4:55 |
David Wright |
Homeomorphisms of the Whitehead Manifold |
| 5:00 - 5:30 |
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Problem Session |
| 6:00 - 7:30 |
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Picnic Supper, Commons Lawn |
Saturday, June 15
| Time |
Speaker |
Title |
| 8:15 - 9:00 |
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Continental Breakfast, North Hall 282 |
| 9:00 - 10:00 |
Alexander Dranishnikov |
Dimension Theory: local and global, III |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
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Morning Break |
| 10:30 - 11:30 |
John Bryant |
Reflections on the Bing-Borsuk Conjecture |
| 11:30 - 2:00 |
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Lunch Break |
| 2:00 - 3:00 |
Jim Cannon |
Constructing 3-Manifolds |
| 3:00 - 3:30 |
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Afternoon Break |
| 3:30 - 4:30 |
William Jaco |
Efficient triangulations of 3-manifolds |
| 6:15 - 7:30 |
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Social Hour and Cash Bar
Frederik Meijer Gardens |
| 7:30 - 9:30 |
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Dinner, Hauenstein and Pfeiffer Rooms
Frederik Meijer Gardens |
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