Workshop Information
Principal Speaker
The featured speaker will be Peter Teichner of the University of California,
San Diego. He will give a series of three one-hour talks on "New obstructions for embedding 2-spheres into 4-manifolds". Click here for an Abstract and for links to the slides for each of the three talks.
Contributed Talks
Participants are invited to contribute talks. The lengths of these talks
will be approximately twenty minutes, and will depend on the number of
requests we receive. A firm schedule will be in place a week or two before
the workshop.
Support
An NSF grant has been awarded to this workshop to help cover participants' costs. Limited funds are available to support travel and living expenses
of participants who do not have other NSF funding for their research. Graduate students and recent Ph.D.s in geometric topology are especially encouraged to apply for support.
Deadlines
May 10. Requests for financial support.
May 24. Request to give a contributed talk.
May 31. Abstracts for contributed talks.
Proceedings
A Proceedings of the conference will be published locally, after the conference
ends.
Funding
The workshop is supported by the National Science Foundation and University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Organizers
Fredric Ancel, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, ancel@uwm.edu
Dennis Garity, Oregon State University, garity@math.oregonstate.edu
Craig Guilbault, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, craigg@uwm.edu
Frederick Tinsley, Colorado College, ftinsley@ColoradoCollege.edu
Gerard Venema, Calvin College, venema@calvin.edu
David Wright, Brigham Young University, wright@math.byu.edu
Local Contact
Contact Craig Guilbault (craigg@uwm.edu)
if you have questions about the workshop or comments about this web site.