Fall 2005 meeting of the PNGS

Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar

2005 Fall Meeting
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR
Saturday and Sunday
Nov 5 and 6, 2005

Schedule

The schedule includes 15 minutes after each talk for a discussion of open problems.

Saturday, November 5
10:30–11:00	Coffee
11:00-12:15	Jenny Harrison (UC Berkeley) What is Stokes' theorem -- from algebraic foundations to geometric completions
12:15-2:15	Lunch
2:15-3:30	Moon Duchin (UC Davis) When thin-framed triangles are thin
3:30-4:00	Coffee
4:00-5:15	Dan Burghelea (Ohio State) Complex Ray Singer torsion and a few applications
7:00	Dinner
Sunday, November 6
8:30-9:00	Coffee
9:00-10:15	Tian-Jun Li (University of Minnesota) Symplectic structures on closed manifolds
10:15-10:45	Coffee
10:45-12:00	Nathan Dunfield (Caltech) Does a random 3-manifold fiber over the circle?

All talks will be held in Bexell 207, 2251 SW Campus Way.

For more information about this meeting, contact Christine Escher <tine@math.orst.edu> or Juha Pohjanpelto <juha@math.orst.edu>.

Send suggestions or corrections for this web page to Jack Lee <lee@math.washington.edu>.