Abstracts

Invited Speakers

Stewart Baldwin Distinguishing inverse limits of tree maps
Noel Brady The relation gap problem.
Danny Calegari Faces of the scl norm ball
Paul Gartside Hilbert's 13th Problem
Robert Ghrist Euler calculus for data
Logan C Hoehn A non-chainable continuum with span zero
Chris Hruska How to cubulate groups
Peter A. Linnell Approximating Betti numbers over arbitrary fields
Dan Margalit Group theory, geometry and dynamics of surface homeomorphisms
Tamás Mátrai On a partition calculus of partial orders
Lex G. Oversteegen Extending homeomorphisms and isotopies of planar continua
Kamlesh Parwani Partially hyperbolic diffeomorphism on 3-manifolds
Kevin M. Pilgrim Hausdorffization, monotone-light factorizations, and the global topology of polynomial shift loci
Isabel Puga Ultrasmooth dendroids
Christian Rosendal Finitely approximable groups and actions
Mark Sapir Dynamics of polynomial maps over p-adics, random walks and residual properties of 1-related groups
Sonja Stimac On Ingram's Conjecture
Boaz Tsaban New methods and results in infinite-combinatorial topology: Point-cofinite covers and pointwise convergence
Verónica Martínez de la Vega Uniqueness of Hyperspaces of Peano Continua

Continuum Theory

José G. Anaya Making holes in hyperspaces of dendrites
David P. Bellamy Irreducibility and Indecomposability
Javier Camargo On the openness of the induced map C_n(f)
Wlodzimierz J. Charatonik A new topology on the space of continua.
E.D.Tymchatyn Spaces admitting sigma finite linear measure
Kevin Gammon The Cartesian product of the pseudo-arc and a pseudo-solenoid is factorwise rigid.
Alejandro Illanes Induced mappings on the symmetric products
Regina Greiwe Jackson Properties of Nonmetric Hereditarily Indecomposable Subcontinua of Finite Products of Lexicographic Arcs
Janusz M. Lysko On a Class of Maps of Products of Continua
Sergio Macias On the continuity of Professor Jones' set function K
Ben Marlin A very simple family of multi-valued maps on [0, 1]
Marcus Marsh Generalized Alexandroff-Urysohn Squares and the Fixed Point Property
Debra Mimbs Modeling Julia Sets with Laminations: An Alternative Definition
Jorge M. Martínez Montejano Mutual aposyndesis of 2^X
Van Nall Inverse limits with set valued functions and connectedness.
Norberto Ordoñez-Ramirez THE HYPERSPACE OF REGULAR AND MEAGER SUBCONTINUA
Antonio Peláez The span for Hausdorff Continua
FELIX CAPULIN PEREZ Bend intersection property on dendroids
Janusz R Prajs Semi-terminal continua in homogeneous spaces
Dr. Likin C. Simon Romero A Characterization of Terminal Subcontinua
Michel Smith A nonmetric separable perfectly normal hereditarily indecomposable continuum.
Frank Sturm Every Surjective Self-map of the Pseudo-Circle is a Near Local Homeomorphism
Scott Varagona Inverse Limits with Upper Semi-Continuous Bonding Functions and Indecomposability
R. Patrick Vernon Symmetries of the Pseudocircle
Hugo Villanueva-Mendez New families of continua for which their cone can be embedded into their hyperspace of subcontinua
Karen Villarreal Another Class of Continua Which Are Factorwise Rigid
Brian Williams Full Projections in Inverse Limits of Set-Valued Functions
Fernando Orozco Zitli Making holes in the second symetric product of some fans

Dynamical Systems

Iztok Banič Paths through inverse limits
Alexander Blokh Cubic Critical Portraits and Polynomials with Wandering Gaps
Jan P. Boroński A fixed-point theorem for the pseudo-circle
Philip Boyland Entropy Efficiency of Braids
Clinton Curry Finitely Suslinean Models for Polynomial Julia Sets
Suzanne Lynch Hruska Homotopy Pseudo-Orbits and the Iterated Monodromy Group
James Keesling Results related to the Hilbert-Smith Conjecture
Judy Kennedy Pseudoarcs and generalized inverse limits
Eiko Kin Pseudo-Anosovs on closed surfaces having small entropy and the Whitehead sister link exterior
Sarah Koch Bottcher Coordinates in C^m
Daniel M. Look Checkerboard Julia Sets
Leon Luxemburg Equilibria of Morse-Smale Flows on Covering Manifolds
Lilya Lyubich Periodic orbits of a dynamical system related to a knot.
Ozgur Martin Disjoint hypercyclic and supercyclic composition operators.
John C. Mayer Totally disconnected buried points in Julia sets
Jonathan Meddaugh Probability measures on the limit spaces of upper semicontinuous maps.
Piotr Minc Problems with images of hereditarily indecomposable continua
Carl Olimb The Branch Locus for two dimensional tiling spaces
Piotr Oprocha Invariant scrambled sets and mixing
Rodrigo Perez A brief but historic article of Siegel
Roland Roeder Topology of Fatou components for endomorphisms of CP^k: Linking with the Green's Current
Jean-Luc Thiffeault pseudo-Anosovs with small dilatation
Marian Turzanski The Chessboard Theorem and the Fjord Scenery Shortest Path
James Yorke Period doubling cascades galore

General/Set Theoretic Topology

DOYEL BARMAN Random reals and continuous real valued functions.
Jeremy Brazas The topological fundamental group and hoop earring spaces
Nathan Carlson On Several Cardinality Bounds on Power Homogeneous Spaces
Heather Cheatum Examples of L-special trees that are D-spaces and Hereditarily D-spaces.
Pratulananda Das On summability of nets through ideals and some topological observations
Alan Dow Maps on N*
Frank Gould A class of minimally almost periodic groups.
Gary Gruenhage A note on monotonically monolithic spaces
Asli Guldurdek On (weakly) continuously Urysohn spaces
Andrzej Gutek Shift operators and y spaces
Robert W. Heath Topological algebraic structures on Souslin lines
Akira Iwasa Convergence to a set and Cohen reals
Masaru Kada Preserving the Lindelöf property under forcing extensions
Alexander A. Katz On topological duality between non-unital commutative locally C*-algebras and locally k-spaces, and its applications.
Chuan Liu Generalized metric space properties on paratopological groups
Ernie Manes Open Questions for r-spaces, omega-spaces and Countably Tight Spaces
Mikhail Matveev One more topological equivalent of CH
Roberto Pichardo Mendoza Hechler Reals and Efimov's Problem
David Milovich Order properties of bases in products
Frederic Mynard A unified theory of function spaces and hyperspaces: local properties
Peter Nyikos D-spaces and trees
Leszek Piatkiewicz Topological games and the Vietoris hyperspace
Ted Porter Monotone Properties Defined by Open Neighborhood Assignments
Leonard R. Rubin Extension Theory and Finite Products of Copies of [0, W)
John J. Schommer Meekly Normal Spaces
Ihor Stasyuk On continuous linear operators extending metrics
Vladimir Tkachuk A metrizability theorem for compact spaces
Lynne Yengulalp Coarser connected topologies
László Zsilinszky On (strong) a-favorability of the Wijsman hyperspace

Geometric Topology/Geometric Group Theory

Peter Abramenko Rings for which SL₂(R) is not finitely generated
Risto Atanasov Geometric Two-Dimensional Duality Groups
Angela Kubena Barnhill Building lattices
John Donnelly Weakly Ruinous Subsets of Richard Thompson’s Group F
Jerzy Dydak Analogs of large scale invariants in topology
Brie Finegold Connectivity of the Torus Complex
Max Forester On stable commutator length in free groups
Jim Fowler Rational PD Groups and Controlled Symmetric Signatures
Ross Geoghegan The fundamental group at infinity
Brad Groff Connectedness of the Boundary of Coxeter Groups
Keith Jones Connectivity properties for actions on locally finite trees
Christopher Mooney Sprawl and Limit Measures in Groups
Piotr Nowak Controlled coarse homology and isoperimetric inequalities
Mark O'Brien Two dimensional Right-Angled Coxeter Groups
Denis Osin Beyond relative hyperbolicity
Julien Paupert New non-arithmetic lattices in SU(2, 1)
Adam Piggott On the derived series of Coxeter groups
Tim Riley Hydra Groups
Lucas Sabalka On the geometry of Out(F_n)
Richard Scott L²-Cohomology and reciprocity for Coxeter groups.
Gentimis Thanos Higson Compactification of The Hyperbolic Space
Diane Vavrichek Quasi-isometry invariant subgroups
Matthew Zaremsky Weyl group representatives in Chevalley groups, and an application to buildings
Dongping Zhuang Large Scale Geometry of Commutator Subgroups

Contributed Talks

Sergey Antonyan The Gromov-Hausdorff hyperspace of the unit interval is a Hilbert cube
Hanspeter Fischer Combinatorial R-trees as generalized Cayley graphs for fundamental groups of one-dimensional spaces
Gregory A. Kelsey Using self-similar groups to find Thurston obstructions
Ben McCarty On the cube number of a knot
Atish Mitra Large Scale extensors
Kashyap Rajeevsarathy Roots of Dehn twists about separating curves
F C Tinsley Generalizing one-sided h-cobordisms, homotopy collars, and pseudocollars in inward tame manifold ends
Vera Tonic Z/p-Acyclic Resolutions in the Strongly Countable Z/p-Dimensional Case
Prabhakar Vaidya Connecting Fourier Analysis of Dynamical Systems to the Topology of Underlying Manifolds.
Tatsuhiko Yagasaki Groups of volume-preserving diffeomorphisms of noncompact manifolds and mass flow toward ends