First Announcement for the Summer 1999 Wasatch Topology Conference

The mathematics departments of the University of Utah and Brigham Young
University along with the National Science Foundation are sponsoring the
Tenth
Semiannual Wasatch Topology Conference to be held August 9-12, 1999
at the Treasure Mountain Inn Hotel in Park City, Utah.  The conference
website
is:
http://www.math.byu.edu/~conner/wtc.html

The speakers are:

Jeff Brock -- Stanford University,
Boris Okun -- Vanderbilt University
Jon McCammond -- Texas A&M
Kevin Scannell -- St. Louis University
Katsuya Eda -- Waseda University, Japan

Each speaker will give 2 one-hour talks.

Depending on interest, there may be some contributed talks.

A list of times and titles is included at the end of this note.

Park City is a beautiful resort city in the scenic Wasatch mountains.
We have negotiated a deeply discounted room rate of $45.00 (studio)
$55.00 (one bedroom) per night for the duration of the conference at the
Treasure Mountain Inn Hotel. The nearest airport, Salt Lake International
airport, is approximately 40 miles distant from the meeting site.  Those
interested in attending the conference should make reservations as far in
advance as possible to guarantee availability of rooms at the discount rate.
To get the conference rate, mention that you are from the math conference
on Aug 9-12. If this doesn't work, mention BYU.  If that still doesn't work
ask to talk to Thea (the manager). The toll-free number for the Treasure
Mountain
Inn Hotel is 1-800-344-2460  and their address is
255 Main Street, Park City, Utah 84060.

Their homepage is:
http://www.parkcityus.com/~tmi/

We would also like to point out that Delta and Southwest Airlines
usually offer very reasonably priced flights from the western US to
Salt Lake ($150 round-trip fares are not uncommon).


If you will be attending the conference or need more information
please contact the conference organizers,  Mladen Bestvina
mailto:bestvina@math.utah.edu, or Greg Conner mailto:conner@math.byu.edu



Monday, August 9

        3:00-4:00               Brock: "A combinatorial model for the
Weil-Petersson metric on
Teichmuller space."

        4:30-5:30               McCammond: "Curvature and quasiconvexity in
geometric group
theory I"

Tuesday, August 10

        9:00-10:00      Scannell: "The grafting map of Teichmuller space"

        10:30-11:30     Okun: "$l_2$-homology of Coxeter groups I"

        1:30-?                  Hike

Wednesday, August 11

        9:00-10:00              Eda: "Fundamental groups of one dimensional
wild Peano
continua I"

        10:30-11:30             Brock: "The Weil-Petersson metric and the
geometry of
hyperbolic 3-manifolds"

        1:30-2:30               McCammond: "Curvature and quasiconvexity in
geometric
group theory II"

        3:00-4:00               Scannell: "Flat conformal structures and
constant curvature
spacetimes"

        5:00-?                  Picnic

Thursday, August 12

        9:00-10:00              Okun: "$l_2$-homology of Coxeter groups II"

        10:30-11:30             Eda: "Fundamental groups of one dimensional
wild Peano
continua II"

        12:00-12:30     Problem Session