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1999 Spring Topology Conference
March 18-20, 1999
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Organizers
Mladen Bestvina, Greg Conner, Misha Kapovich, Bruce Kleiner

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Essential Laminations and Kneser Normal Form
by
David Gabai
Caltech

We discuss the medium scale topology of taut foliations and essential laminations in atoroidal 3-manifolds. In particular we address the question of when an essential lamination can be isotoped to be normal to a given triangulation on a 3-manifold.

Date received: February 15, 1999

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