Cascade Topology Seminar

Cascade
Topology
Seminar

The Cascade Topology Seminar is a semi-annual gathering of topologists from the Pacific Northwest and Southwestern Canada.

Fall 2000 Meeting: Saturday and Sunday November 11-12

University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon

Meeting number 26

Schedule
Saturday November 11:
10:00-10:30	Coffee/tea, etc. Willamette Hall Atrium
10:30-11:30	Dev Sinha	Brown University	The topology of spaces of embeddings of one-dimensional manifolds
1:45-2:45	Maria Basterra	University of Illinois	Topological Andre-Quillen cohomology, Gamma-homology and Stabilization
3:00-4:00	Thang Le	SUNY Buffalo	On the colored Jones polynomial

6:30	Dinner at Hal Sadofsky's house.	For info, contact sadofsky@darkwing.uoregon.edu

Sunday November 12:
9:00-9:30	Coffee/Tea etc.	Willamette Hall Atrium
9:30-10:30	Inga Johnson	University of Oregon	The effect of multiplication by 2^k on the root invariant
11:00-12:00	Matthias Weber	MSRI (visiting from Bonn University)	The Embeddedness of the Genus One Helicoid

The lectures will be in 110 Willamette Hall. Coffee/Tea/snacks will be in the atrium of the same building.

There will be a party at Hal Sadofsky's house on Saturday evening.

Limited support from the National Science Foundation is available for participants in these meetings without grant support. First priority will go to graduate students and faculty from regional universities. Participants from other universities may be supported if funds are available.

Information

The hotels below are quite close by, a little east of the building where the conference will be, but see UPDATE below.

New Oregon Best Western, 1-888-287-3390, 1655 Franklin Blvd. (from $55.)
Green Tree Best Western, 1-800-528-1234, 1759 Franklin Blvd.
Franklin Inn, 541-342-4804, 1857 Franklin Blvd. ($35-$50)

Housing update: There are some other events at the UO the weekend of November 11. It is still possible to find rooms, but the "Best Western's" listed above are likely to be full. Here are some other places to try.

Motel 6, (Eugene South) 3690 Glenwood Drive. This is about 1.5 miles from the University, (541) 687-2395. It is east of the University, off of I5.
Motel 6, (Eugene-Springfield) 3752 International Ct Springfield, (541) 741-1105. This is off I5, a several miles to the north of the University.
Pacific 9 Motor Lodge. 3550 Gateway Springfield, (541) 726-9266. This is also north of the University off of I5. It is very Motel 6-like.
The Timbers Motel, 1015 Pearl St. Eugene, (541) 343-3345. This is in downtown Eugene, about 1.5 miles from the University to the west. (It isn't in the woods in spite of its name - choose the first Motel 6 if you want in the woods.)

Also very close (maybe a 15 minute walk to where the talks are) but west of campus, and therefore close to downtown:

Campus Inn, 1-800-888-6313, 390 E. Broadway.
Eugene Motor Lodge, 1-800-876-7829, 476 E. Broadway ($38 single).
Travelers Inn, 1-541-342-1109, 540 E. Broadway ($32 single).

These three are listed in order as you approach the U of O.

Directions to Hal Sadofsky's house

The address is 2105 McMillan St, phone 431-1736. It is about a 25-30 minute walk from campus. Walk west along 13th Avenue (about 9 blocks after you get off campus), then turn left on Willamette. Go about 8 blocks to Grandview (between 20th Avenue and 22nd Avenue) and turn right up Grandview which is a very short, steep hill. Bear left onto McMillan. Depending on how you count, 2105 is the 2nd or 3rd house on the left. These directions would work for driving too, except 13th is one way the wrong way. Depending on where you start, you could use 11th or 18th Avenues to get to Willamette, then as above.

Restaurants

There are restaurants along 13th Avenue heading west into the downtown area, several of which are quite close to the university. The biggest concentration near the University is on Alder between 11th and 13th Avenues.

There are also places to eat up around the corner of Agate and 19th Avenue, south of the campus. And there are restaurants along Franklin Boulevard, and at the 5th Street Market (which is on 5th Avenue, downtown).

The math department is in Deady Hall and Fenton Hall. Willamette Hall is a little further east along 13th Avenue from Fenton Hall.