All talks in Physics 133

(Begin each day at 8:30 am with a continental breakfast in EMS E495B)

Thursday, June 10

Time	Speaker	Title
9:00-9:25	James Conant	A variation on finite type knot invariants
9:35-10:00	David Snyder	Can the 4-sphere decompose uppersemicontinuously into circle-like compacta?
10:10-10:35	Mark Meilstrup	The 'Good' set in a 1-dimensional Peano continuum is a locally finite graph
	BREAK
10:55-11:20	Boris Okun	On Singer Conjecture for Coxeter groups
11:30-11:55	Tom Fleming	Intrinsically linked graphs with knotted components
	LUNCH
1:30-2:30	Peter Teichner	New obstructions for embedding 2-spheres into 4-manifolds , Part 1
	BREAK
2:50-3:15	Greg Conner	Homotopy equivalence in 1-dimensional and planar Peano continua
3:25-3:50	Craig Guilbault	Open manifolds homotopy equivalent to finite complexes

Friday, June 11

Time	Speaker	Title
9:00-10:00	Peter Teichner	New obstructions for embedding 2-spheres into 4-manifolds, Part 2
	BREAK
10:20-10:45	Fred Tinsley	Manifolds with non-stable fundamental group at infinity, III
10:55-11:20	Dennis Garity	Rigid Cantor sets with simply connected complement
11:30-11:55	Denise Halverson	Approximating  cell-like maps by cellular maps in dimension 5
	LUNCH
1:30-2:30	Peter Teichner	New obstructions for embedding 2-spheres into 4-manifolds, Part 3
	BREAK
2:50-3:15	Mat Timm	2-complexes with self covers
3:25-3:50	Bobby Winters	Normal curves in 2-manifolds, preliminary report

Saturday, June 12

Time	Speaker	Title
9:00-9:25	Yusuf Gurtas	Positive Dehn twist expressions for some finite order elements in the mapping class group
9:35-10:00	Steve Ferry	Recognizing open subsets of Euclidean space
10:10-10:35	Hanspeter Fischer	Generalized universal covering spaces and the shape group
	BREAK
10:55-11:20	Tadek Dobrowolski	Extension vs. selection properties
11:30-11:55	Bob Edwards	Conjectures and speculations concerning actions by Cantor groups on ENRs
12:00-???	Problem Session