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

Pictures courtesty of Brad Shelton

Spring 2000 Meeting: Saturday and Sunday May 20-21

Portland State University, Portland, Oregon

Schedule
Friday May 19:
8:00 Early Bird social gathering Rock Bottom Brewery at the corner of 4th and Morrison downtown (a 5-10 minute walk from the Doubletree)
Saturday May 20:
10:30-11:00 Coffee etc. 3rd floor Atrium Neuberger Hall
11:00-12:00 Diane Hoffoss Rice University Quasigeodesic Flows on Some Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds
1:30-2:30 Gowri Meda Pacific Univerisity Sewn up and surgered sewn up link extertiors: Dehn surgery presentations and formulas for Lescop's invariant
3:00-4:00 Daryl Cooper UC-Santa Barbara The end of the Orbifold Theorem?
4:30-5:30 Michel Boileau Univerité de Paul Sabatier Small 3-orbifolds are geometric
6:00 Potluck Dinner location TBA. Please RSVP to bachmand@pdx.edu or steve@math.pdx.edu.
Sunday May 21:
9:00-9:30 Coffee Th 319
9:30-10:30 Cynthia Verjovsky University of Texas at Austin Incompressible surfaces of genus > 1 after Dehn surgery
11:00-12:00 Peter Shalen University of Illinois at Chicago Smallish knots in 3-manifolds
All talks will be in Neuberger Hall on the PSU campus at the corner of Broadway (7th) and Hall Streets at the south end of Portland's downtown. Portland State is easily reached by car from the 6th Street exits on I-405. There is also direct bus service from the airport on Tri-met route #12, which stops at 5th and Hall. Bus fare from the airport is $1.35. Parking will be available in Portland State Parking Structure 1, whose entrance is on 6th between Mongomery and Hall Sts.

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Downtown Portland Doubletree Hotel, 4 blocks from the PSU campus. Those interested in rooms should contact Ms. Eileen Mitchell at 503-725-3621 before May 18, 2000.

Campus map.

Directions to campus.

Portland weather.

The Cascade Topology Seminar is supported in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation, whose support is gratefully acknowledged.

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University of Oregon, Department of Mathematics
sadofsky@math.uoregon.edu - March 31, 1998