Schedule

Friday

Morning Location: Social Sciences 122

9:00-9:45	Lee Mosher, Hyperbolic actions of Out(F_n) and its subgroups
10:00-10:45	Jesse Wolfson, On the theory of resolvent degree - after Hamilton, Sylvester, Hilbert, Segre, and Brauer
11:00-11:45	Tullia Dymarz, Quasi-isometric rigidity and solvable groups
12:00-1:30	Lunch

Afternoon Location: Social Sciences 122

1:30-2:15 Mark Kisin, The Grothendieck p-curvature conjecture - variations

2:30-3:15 Andy Putman, Covers and simple closed curves

3:30-4:00 Tea in Eckhart tea room

Late Afternoon Location: Kent 107

4:00-5:00 Colloquium: Jordan Ellenberg, Farblandia

5:15-6:00 Lightning Talks

Tara Brendle and Dan Margalit, Ivanov's metaconjecture
Khalid Bou-Rabee, The extrinsic primitive torsion problem
Tori Akin, Algebraic Characterizations in the Mapping Class Group
Nir Gadish, Finitely generated families of linear subspace arrangements
Kevin Casto, Bounding the cohomology of configuration spaces and rationality Poincaré series
Wouter Limbeek, Coarse geometry of expanders from homogeneous spaces

6:30 Problem Session in "The Barn" (Ryerson Hall) - click here to submit a problem

Saturday

Location: Kent 107

9:00-9:45	Ian Agol, Coloring maps on surfaces
10:00-10:45	Pallavi Dani, The large-scale geometry of right-angled Coxeter groups
11:00-11:45	Kathryn Mann, Rigidity implies geometricity for surface group representations
11:50	Conference Photo
12:00-1:30	Lunch
1:30-2:15	Curtis McMullen, Solving polynomials: braids, rigidity and dynamics
2:30-3:15	Ursula Hamenstädt, Strata of abelian differentials, Artin groups and tautological classes
3:30-4:00	Tea
4:00-5:00	Lightning talks Rebecca Winarski, Twisted Rabbits and Hubbard Trees Asaf Hadari, homological eigenvalues for pseudo-Anosov mapping classes Nick Salter, Plane curves and mapping class groups Daniel Studenmund, Semidualities from products of trees Balazs Strenner, Fast Nielsen-Thurston classification Lei Chen, Adding points to configurations Spencer Dowdall, Mapping class groups: Bigger. Better? Commensurably rigid!
5:15-6:00	Amie Wilkinson, Benson 'n' Dynamics 'n' Me
6:00	Banquet @ Quadrangle Club

Sunday

Location: Kent 107

9:00-9:45	Howard Masur, Ergodic Theory of Interval Exchange Transformations
10:00-10:45	Tom Church, The Johnson filtration is finitely generated
11:00-11:45	Karin Melnick, Topology of automorphism groups of parabolic geometries
12:00-1:30	Lunch
1:30-2:15	Lightning talks Justin Lanier, Normal generators for mapping class groups are abundant Carolyn Abbott, Hyperbolic structures on groups Weiyan Chen, How many points can be chosen continuously on smooth cubic plane curves? Justin Malestein, Arithmetic Quotients Jenny Wilson, Stability in the homology of configuration spaces Bena Tshishiku, Unstable cohomology of arithmetic groups and characteristic classes of manifold bundles
2:30-3:15	Peter Shalen, Nerves, k-free groups, and quantitative Mostow rigidity

1:30-2:15	Mark Kisin, The Grothendieck p-curvature conjecture - variations
2:30-3:15	Andy Putman, Covers and simple closed curves
3:30-4:00	Tea in Eckhart tea room

4:00-5:00	Colloquium: Jordan Ellenberg, Farblandia
5:15-6:00	Lightning Talks Tara Brendle and Dan Margalit, Ivanov's metaconjecture Khalid Bou-Rabee, The extrinsic primitive torsion problem Tori Akin, Algebraic Characterizations in the Mapping Class Group Nir Gadish, Finitely generated families of linear subspace arrangements Kevin Casto, Bounding the cohomology of configuration spaces and rationality Poincaré series Wouter Limbeek, Coarse geometry of expanders from homogeneous spaces
6:30	Problem Session in "The Barn" (Ryerson Hall) - click here to submit a problem