Redbud Topology Conference

The talks are on the University of Arkansas campus in the room as indicated. Abstracts are below.

Thursday, April 27 (Graduate Student Session SCEN 322)

Time Speaker Talk
12:00 – 12:50 Hannah Alpert Shapes of balls in step 2 nilpotent groups
1:05 – 1:55 Sam Taylor Hyperbolic manifolds, fibered faces, and subsurface projections
2:10 – 3:00 Andrew Sale Outer automorphism groups of right-angled Artin groups
3:00 – 3:30 refreshments
3:30 – 4:20 Vincent Guirardel Avatars of small cancellation

Friday, April 28 (RCED 111)

Time Speaker Talk
8:00 – 8:50 coffee
8:50 – 9:00 welcome
9:00 – 9:50 Mark Feighn The boundary of the free splitting graph
10:05 – 10:55 Kasra Rafi Counting lattice points in Thurston's asymmetric metric on Teichmüller space
11:10 – 12:00 Priyam Patel Algebraic and topological properties of big mapping class groups
12:00 – 2:00 lunch
2:00 – 2:50 Hannah Alpert Can arbitrarily many segments of a fixed length spin independently in the unit disk?
3:05 – 3:55 Sam Taylor Veering triangulations and fibered faces of 3–manifolds
4:10 – 5:00 Vincent Guirardel Boundary amenability for Out(Fn)

Saturday, April 29 (SCEN 408)

Time Speaker Talk
8:00 – 8:30 coffee
8:30 – 9:20 Moon Duchin Nilpotent geometry in the semi-large
9:35 – 10:25 Ilya Kapovich A polynomial time algorithm for detecting fully irreducible automorphisms
10:25 – 10:55 coffee
10:55 – 11:45 Andrew Sale The outer automorphism group of a right-angled Coxeter group is either large or virtually abelian
12:00 – 12:50 Khalid Bou-Rabee The Primitive Burnside Problem

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