23rd Annual
Workshop in Geometric Topology
June 2-3-4, 2006
Oregon State University

Schedule:
The tentative schedule is listed below. There may be a few last minute changes.
Contributed talks are 25 minutes long with a 5 minute break in between.
The Friday talks will be in the LaSells Stewart Center.
The Saturday and Sunday talks will be in Kidder Hall, room 350.
The campus map shows the location of these buildings and also shows parking possibilities.
Friday - June 2
LaSells Stewart Center
Saturday - June 3
Kidder 350
Sunday - June 4
Kidder 350
8:30-9:10
Refreshments
8:30-9:10
Refreshments
8:30-9:10
Refreshments
9:15-10:15
Ruth Charney
Right-Angled Artin Groups, I
9:15-10:15
Ruth Charney
Right-Angled Artin Groups, II
9:15-10:15
Ruth Charney
Right-Angled Artin Groups, III
10:15-10:45
Registration
10:15-10:30
Break
10:15-10:30
Break
10:45-11:10
Craig Guilbault
Some Group Theory Arising in High-dimensional Manifold Topology
10:30-10:55
Frederick Tinsley
Old-time Commutator Calculus
10:30-10:55
Greg Conner
Some open questions in low-dimensional wild  fundamental groups
11:15-11:40
Christopher Mooney
Cell-like Equivalence and Boundaries of CAT(0) Groups
11:00-11:25
Denise Halverson
Length Minimization Problems on Surfaces
11:00-11:25
Atish Mitra
Hurewicz Theorem for Nagata-Assouad Dimension
11:45-13:45
Lunch
11:30-11:55
Ranja Roy
Replacement Procedures and a Conjecture of Hopf
11:30-11:55
Problem Session
13:45-14:10

Justin Smith
Assouad-Nagata Dimension for Finitely Generated Groups

12:00-14:00
Lunch
12:00
Conference Ends
14:15-14:40
Leonard Rubin
Inverse Sequences and
Extension Theory
14:00-14:25
David Snyder
Knots as Processes: Embedding Knot Theory in a Formal, Computational Framework
 
14:40-15:00
Registration
14:30-14:55
Tadek Dobrowolski
How Many Translates of a Closed Nowhere Dense Set are Needed to Cover a Polish Group?
15:00 -20:00 Open Time 15:00 -18:30 Open Time
20:00-22:00
Dessert?
18:30
Dinner ?