Geometry, Topology, and their Interactions.
An international conference in honor of Farrell-Jones.
Morelia (Mexico), January 8th-13th, 2007.
Organized by: Jim Davis (Indiana Univ.), Daniel Juan-Pineda (IM-UNAM),
Jean-Francois Lafont (Ohio State Univ.) and Stratos Prassidis (Canisius College).
This conference will gather together mathematicians whose work lies at the interface of geometry and topology.
The conference will be hosted by the Instituto de Matematicas (IM-UNAM) in Morelia, Mexico. It will
run from January 8th (Monday) till January 13th (Saturday). There will be six talks each day, with half-days (three
morning talks) on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. In addition, there will be three series of introductory lectures on (1) high dimensional topology, (2) controlled topology, and (3) geometric group theory for topologists. The introductory lectures, targeted at graduate students and postdocs,
will be held during the weekend of January 6th-7th.
The conference will honor the numerous mathematical contributions of Tom Farrell and
Lowell Jones. Their collaboration, spanning 30 years, and over 45 papers, provided
one of the earliest demonstration of the power of
geometric methods applied to classical problems in topology, as well
as topological methods applied to classical problems in differential
geometry. Prof. Frank Connolly (University of Notre Dame) has kindly agreed to give
a lecture on the contributions of Farrell and Jones to geometry and topology.
Speakers at the conference (tentatively confirmed):
- Luis Hernandez-Lamoneda (CIMAT, Mexico)
- Ben Schmidt (University of Chicago)
Registering for the Conference:
Due to limitations on the size of the lecture halls, we have an upper bound of 80 people who
can attend this conference. If you are interested in attending, please fill out the relevant
information in the
registration form.
Funding:
The conference is partially funded by the NSF grant DMS -0650422. Some limited
funds will be available to help cover the costs of attending the conference.
Graduate students and postdocs are particularly encouraged to apply for funding.
The conference is also partially funded by the host institution, Instituto de Matematicas, Unidad Morelia
(IMUNAM).
Travel support
for Canadian participants is available through the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS).
Please contact deputy@pims.math.ca for more information.
Conference Proceedings:
Proceedings of the conference will appear in a special issue of the journal Pure and Applied
Mathematics Quarterly.
Travel to Mexico:
American citizens and permanent residents, as well as nationals from many other countries, need only a "tourist card" to enter Mexico for the conference. For a list of these countries and information on obtaining a tourist card see:
Consular Section of Embassy of Mexico in the United States of America.
Information on specific visa requirements for citizens of various
countries can be found here.
Nationals from countries which require a visa to enter Mexico can find information and a visa application (pdf format) at:
http://www.consulmexsf.com/ then select "services to non-Mexican" then select "visa legal framework".
If you need documentation supporting your visa application, contact Daniel Juan-Pineda, daniel@matmor.unam.mx.
For information about the Instituto de Matematicas, Unidad Morelia, go to http://www.matmor.unam.mx
For local information on Morelia, including travel information, go to http://www.matmor.unam.mx/turismo/ingles/default.html
Contacting the organizers:
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact any of the organizers:
- Jim Davis (Indiana University), jfdavis@indiana.edu
Registered participants:
- David Constantine (University of Michigan)
- Felix Villa Diaz (Cinvestav, Mexico)
- Juan Pablo Diaz Gonzalez (UNAM, Mexico)
- Barbara Jablonska (Tulane University)
- Luis Loeza (IMUNAM - Cuernavaca, Mexico)
- Cristhian Emmanuel Garay Lopez (Cinvestav, Mexico)
- John Mackay (University of Michigan)
- Miguel Angel Maldonado (Cinvestav, Mexico)
- Gerald Marchesi (Binghamton University)
- Luis Fernando Hernandez Moguel (IMUNAM - Morelia, Mexico)
- Seshendra Pallekonda (Binghamton University)
- Nansen Petrosyan (Indiana University)
- Felipe Alberto Ramirez (University of Michigan)
- Jesus Castaneda Rivera (Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo, Mexico)
- Raul Naranjo Romero (Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo, Mexico)
- Ranja Roy (New York Institute of Technology)
- Simon Rose (University of British Columbia, Canada)
- Fernando Bernal Vilchis (IMUNAM - Morelia, Mexico)
- Miguel Xicotencatl (Cinvestav, Mexico)
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0650422.
Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recomendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).
