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   Registration, North Hall 270
8:00 - 9:00   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   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   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   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   Continental Breakfast, North Hall 282
9:00 - 10:00 Alexander Dranishnikov Dimension Theory: local and global, II
10:00 - 10:30   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   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   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   Problem Session
6:00 - 7:30   Picnic Supper, Commons Lawn

Saturday, June 15

Time Speaker Title
8:15 - 9:00   Continental Breakfast, North Hall 282
9:00 - 10:00 Alexander Dranishnikov Dimension Theory: local and global, III
10:00 - 10:30   Morning Break
10:30 - 11:30 John Bryant Reflections on the Bing-Borsuk Conjecture
11:30 - 2:00   Lunch Break
2:00 - 3:00 Jim Cannon Constructing 3-Manifolds
3:00 - 3:30   Afternoon Break
3:30 - 4:30 William Jaco Efficient triangulations of 3-manifolds
6:15 - 7:30   Social Hour and Cash Bar
Frederik Meijer Gardens
7:30 - 9:30   Dinner, Hauenstein and Pfeiffer Rooms
Frederik Meijer Gardens