First Arkansas-Oklahoma workshop in topology and geometry

University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville AR

Investigators

Abstract

he first Arkansas-Oklahoma workshop in topology and geometry will be held at the University of Arkansas May 18-20, 2005. The purpose of the conference is to bring together researcher from the region as well as researcher whose work is directly relevant to researchers in the area, in the fields of 3-manifolds (hyperbolic 3-manifolds, Dehn surgery, Heegaard splittings, efficient triangulations) and related subjects (2 and 3 dimensional hyperbolic geometry and geometric group theory). In more general terms, topology is the branch of mathematics that, much like geometry, studies shapes. In recent years much progress has been made in understanding 3 and 4 dimensional topology. Although topology ignores some of the basic terms of geometry (such as length area or volume) much of recent progress shows very deep connection between topology and geometry, especially hyperbolic geometry. Our goal in this conference is bringing together people from closely related (yet distinct) fields in order to update each other on recent developments and establish future collaboration.