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A second time around the Volume Conjecture
May 30 - June 3, 2007
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA, USA

Organizers
Abhijit Champanerkar, Oliver Dasbach, Effie Kalfagianni, Ilya Kofman, Walter Neumann, Neal Stoltzfus

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The Chern-Simons invariant of a hyperbolic manifold
by
Christian Zickert
Columbia University

We present a simple method for computing the generalized volume (vol+ics) of a hyperbolic manifold. Our method uses the concept of a flattening introduced by Walter Neumann. We describe a way of reading off the flattenings directly from an ideal triangulation. Our method generalizes to define and compute the generalized volume of a parabolic representation of any tame 3-manifold.

Date received: May 9, 2007

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