Abstracts

Invited Speakers

Dennis Burke The life and mathematics of Zoltan Balogh
Raushan Buzyakova On cleavabiliy of compacta over LOTS
Michael Davis L²-cohomology of Coxeter groups, Hecke algebras and buildings
Robert L. Devaney Topological bifurcations
Raúl Escobedo Induced universal maps
Robert Ghrist Coordination, complexes, and curvature: topological methods for robotics
KP Hart Logical aspects of span and chainability
Eriko Hironaka Lehmer's problem for chord diagram links
Tadeusz Januszkiewicz 6-systolic spaces
Louis H. Kauffman Virtual knot theory
Piotr Koszmider Solutions to several problems in Banach spaces of continuous functions on non-metrizable compact spaces
Witold Marciszewski Some special compacta K and related spaces C(K) of continuous functions
Piotr Minc Mapping complicated continua onto simple ones with small point inverses
Justin Tatch Moore A compact space with a hereditarily normal square
Walter Neumann The Casson Invariant Conjecture
Oleg Okounev On separable surlindelof compact spaces
John Roe Groups acting by translations in coarse geometry
David J. Ryden Composant structure in inverse limits of Markov maps
Mark Sapir Diagram groups: homotopy and homology
Vesko Valov Mapping theorems for covering and extensional dimension
Klaudiusz Wojcik Isolating segments and symbolic dynamics

Continuum Theory

Gerardo Acosta Homogeneous continua containing arcs
David P. Bellamy Embedding solenoids into Euclidean space
Beverly Brechner The shape of a topological cell - a computational approach
Gaston Brouwer What is the set of points in the middle?
Janusz J. Charatonik A characterization of dendrites
Dale Daniel On fiberings of continuous images of the lexicographic square
Udayan B. Darji Pseudoarcs, Pseudocircles, Lakes of Wada and generic maps from S² into R.
B. D. Garrett An almost continuous retract of a disk.
Charles L. Hagopian Rational irreducible plane continua without the fixed-point property
David Herrera Carrasco Dendrites whose hyperspace of subcontinua is unique
Alejandro Illanes Almost continuous functions, two examples
James Keesling The number of fixed points for homeomorphisms of Knaster continua
Marcus Marsh Products of span zero continua and the fixed point property
Christopher Mouron Expansive homeomorphisms of plane separating continua
Van Nall No arc-connected treelike continuum is the 2-to-1 image of a continuum.
Lex G. Oversteegen Existence of in-channels for the plane fixed point problem
Patricia Pellicer The hyperspaces C(p, X) for atriodic continua
Isabel Puga More on unicoherence at subcontinua
Brian Raines Inhomogeneities in inverse limits of branched manifolds
James T. Rogers, Jr. Indecomposable Continua and the Julia Sets of Polynomials, II
Eldon Vought Aposyndesis in strictly non-mutually-aposyndetic, plane continua

Dynamical Systems

Stewart Baldwin Itineraries of maps of dendrites and dendroids having one "turning point"
Christopher M. Herald Steady-state bifurcations in gradient systems with symmetry
Charles Holton Embedding 1-d tiling spaces in surfaces
Judy Kennedy Generalized Henon equations with delay
Jefferson King-Dávalos A chaotic triangle or some dynamical properties of F(z)=z²-2conj(z)
Krystyna Kuperberg Periodic points near an adding machine
James Malaugh Parameterization of rotational sets under z^d
Brian F. Martensen Generalized balanced pair algorithms for substitution tiling spaces
Monica Moreno-Rocha Accessible points in the Julia set of stable exponentials.
Nicholas Ormes Bounded orbit injections and flow equivalence for minimal Z^d actions.
Lorenzo Sadun Deformations of substitution tiling spaces
Yurii Shvetsov Rotation sets of flows on one-dimensional solenoids
Sonja Stimac Topological classification of generalized Knaster continua with finitely many endpoints
Mike Sullivan Twist-wise flow equivalence
Bob Williams Torus bundle structure for the pinwheel tiling space

General Topology

W. W. Comfort Strong irresolvability vs. irresolvability
Udayan B. Darji Covering R with translates of compact sets
Debora DiCaprio Orderability and continuous selections for Wijsman and Vietoris hyperspaces
Mirna Dzamonja A family of trees of size \aleph₁ with no uncountable branches
Ilijas Farah Is P(\omega) a subalgebra?
Ivan Gotchev On some properties of Noetherian topological spaces
Gary Gruenhage If X is \sigma-compact Polish, then C_k(X) has a \sigma-closure-preserving base
Fernando Hernández-Hernández A perfectly normal space which is not realcompact.
Michael Hrusak Combinatorics of the algebra of regular open subsets of the Cech-Stone remainder of the real line.
David Lutzer Some results on Aronszajn trees and lines
Arnold W. Miller Ultrafilters with property (s)
Peter Nyikos Hereditarily strongly cwH and separation axioms
Mary Ellen Rudin The linearly Lindelöf problem, revisited
Juris Steprāns The dimension of closed bounded subsets of Erdos space
Manuel Suarez Joint maps and supratopolgies
Paul Szeptycki Frechet-Urysohn for finite sets
E.D. Tymchatyn On simultaneous linear extensions of partial metrics
Jerry E. Vaughan A Urysohn-like collectionwise separation property on \Psi
Phillip Zenor Monotone extensions of continuous functions

Geometric Group Theory

Patrick Bahls Strong rigidity in even Coxeter groups
Murray Elder Regular geodesic languages in CAT(0) groups
Craig Jensen Proper actions of automorphism groups of free products of finite groups
Michael L. Mihalik Centralizers of parabolic subgroups of even Coxeter groups
Tim Riley Group theoretic applications of duality considerations in the geometry of diagrams
Eric Swenson An ackbassward counterexample of something that ßhould" be a convergence group
Roger Vogeler Tessellating with Tori
Xiangdong Xie Groups acting on CAT(0) square complexes

Geometric Topology

Ian Agol Survey on algorithmic 3-manifold topology
Stoyu Barov Zero-dimensional screens and k-imitations in Hilbert space
Nikolay Brodskiy Continuous approximations of multivalued maps
Oliver Dasbach The coefficients of the Jones polynomial of alternating knots and the growth of the hyperbolic volume
Paul Fabel Completing Artin's ordered braid group on infinitely many strands
Hanspeter Fischer The fundamental groups of subsets of closed surfaces inject into their first shape groups
Razvan Gelca The matrices of the observables of the quantum group quantization of the moduli space of flat SU(2)-connections on the torus
Craig Guilbault Compactifications of finite-dimensional manifolds
Christopher M. Herald Bifurcations and SU(n) gauge theory on 3-manifolds
Heather Johnston Exotic homology manifolds in dimension five
Danuta Kolodziejczyk Homotopy dominations of polyhedra
Louis F. McAuley Light open mappings on certain Peano continua do not raise dimension and a proof of the Hilbert-Smith Conjecture
Robert Myers End reductions, fundamental groups, and covering spaces of irreducible open 3-manifolds
Junalyn Navarra-Madsen Coloring n-string tangles
V. Samuel Nelson Virtual Crossing Realization
Jozef H. Przytycki Unexpected connections between Burnside groups and Knot Theory
Jennifer Schultens Some topology and algebra of graph manifolds
Ted Stanford Twist sequences and finite quotients of knot groups
F. C. Tinsley Non-pseudo-collarable tame ends
Susan G. Williams Virtual link invariants and involutions
Nancy C. Wrinkle The ropelength of the ßimple" clasp

Topological Algebras

Alexander Arhangel'skii Some observations on quotients of topological groups with respect to locally compact subgroups.
Tadeusz Dobrowolski Groups generated by linearly independent arcs in Banach spaces
Paul Gartside Automorphism Groups and the Space of Substructures
R W Heath Some homegeneity properties of certain topological groups and semigroups
Constancio Hernández R-factorizable Groups and the P property
Neil Hindman A very interesting sequence of idempotents in the Stone-Cech compactifications of sets of variable words.
Jerzy Mogilski Topological Association Schemes
Peter Nyikos A \gamma-set coincidence
Oleg Pavlov A Lindelof topological group whose square is not normal
Zbyszek Piotrowski Games, strong quasi-continuity and topological groups
Marion Scheepers Selection principles and topological groups
Ángel Tamariz-Mascarúa On the Cech number of C_p(X)
László Zsilinszky On completeness properties of the Wijsman topology