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Virtual properties of 3-manifolds

surfaces, residual finiteness, virtual fibering, LERF and related questions

April 22-23, 2010

Montreal, QC, Canada

Mathematics

Host: UQAM
Sponsor: CIRGET, Clay Mathematics Institute
Homepage: http://www.cirget.uqam.ca/3manifolds/index_e.shtml
Email: boyer@math.uqam.ca

Abstracts

Organizers: Ian Agol and Steve Boyer

Deadline for abstracts: March 22, 2010

Description:
Dani Wise will give a series of talks April 19-21 (before the workshop) on his work on separability for hyperbolic groups with quasiconvex hierarchies. The workshop proper will run for two days (April 22-23) and will focus on topics related to the virtual positive first Betti number conjecture and virtual fibering conjecture for 3-manifolds. Michel Boileau will be giving the Montreal-area mathematics colloquium on Friday April 23 to close the event.

Speakers: Nicolas Bergeron, Michel Boileau, Stefan Friedl, Tim Hsu, Jeremy Kahn, Alan Reid, Claire Renard, Dani Wise, Xingru Zhang

Mail Address:

Département de mathématiques
UQAM
P. O. Box 8888, Centre-ville
Montréal H3C 3P8
Québec, Canada
Phone (514) 987-3000
Fax (514) 987-8935

Submitted by: Ian Agol
Date received: January 04, 2010, revised January 11, 2010


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