Geometric Topology
Bilbao, June 30 - July 2, 2014

Special session within the FJIM2014
First Joint International Meeting of the
Spanish and Italian Mathematical Societies
(RSME-SCM-SEMA-SIMAI-UMI)

 Organized by Carlo Petronio (Università di Pisa)
and Joan Porti (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Speakers:

  1. Javier Aramayona (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)
  2. Bruno Benedetti (Freie Universität Berlin)
  3. Michel Boileau (Université d'Aix-Marseille)
  4. Antonio Costa Gonzàlez (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain)
  5. Raquel Díaz Sánchez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
  6. Ana García Lecuona (Université d'Aix-Marseille)
  7. Stefano Francaviglia (Università di Bologna)
  8. Roberto Frigerio (Università di Pisa)
  9. Yuya Koda (Tohoku University)
  10. Bruno Martelli (Università di Pisa)
  11. Christoforos Neofytidis (Universität München)
  12. Cristina Pagliantini (ETH Zürich)
  13. Alessandro Sisto (ETH Zürich)
  14. Juan Souto (Université de Rennes 1)
  15. Anastasiia Tsvietkova (UC Davis)
  16. Shicheng Wang (Peking University)


Schedule:

Monday, June 30
16:00 Boileau - Hidden symmetries and commensurability of hyperbolic knot complements
16:30 Lecuona - The colored signature of a splice link
17:00 Tsvietkova - Hyperbolic volume and the coefficients of the colored Jones polynomial of alternating links
17:30 Koda - Stable maps and branched shadows of 3-manifolds
18:00 Martelli - Some hyperbolic four-manifolds constructed using right-angled polytopes

Tuesday, July 1
11:00 Costa - Doubles of Klein surfaces and 3-manifolds
11:30 Dìaz - Schottky type uniformizations of stable Riemann orbifolds
12:00 Francaviglia - Moduli spaces of branched projective structures
16:00 Pagliantini - The simplicial volume of 3-manifolds with boundary
16:30 Frigerio - Quasi-cocycles and bounded cohomology in higher degree
17:00 Sisto - On the bounded cohomology of acylindrically hyperbolic groups
17:30 Aramayona - Homomorphisms from right-angled Artin groups to mapping class groups
18:00 Souto - Free vs. locally free Kleinian groups

Wednesday, July 2
11:00 Benedetti - Embeddability of collapsible complexes
11:30 Neofytidis - The domination relation and branched covers
12:00 Wang - Embedding surfaces into the 3-sphere with maximum symmetry