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title: A One-day Conference on 3-manifolds
time: July 25, 2008
Place: CMS, room 501
The venue: Center of Mathematical Sciences, Zhejiang University,
Hangzhou
Organizer:
Kefeng Liu (UCLA, CMS)
Feng Luo (Rutgers and CMS)
Hongwei Xu (CMS Zhejiang University)
speakers:
David Futer (Temple)
Francois Gueritaud (Universited'Orsay)
Shicheng Wang (Peking University)
Hao Zheng (Zhong Shang University)
Introduction:
This conference focuses on some recent developments on 3-manifold
theory. Recent work of Perelmann and Hamilton on Thurston's
geometrizaton conjecture has changed the study of 3-manifolds. This
event can be considered as the 3-dimensional counterpart of
Poincare-Koebe's uniformization theory for Riemann surfaces. From
this point of view, one should consider the resolution of the
geometrization conjecture as the beginning of a new research
activities for 3-manifolds. Just like in the theory of Riemann
surfaces, the surging of Teichmuller theory has completely change
the landerscape of Riemann surfaces, the future direction of
3-manifolds should be on hyperbolic 3-manifolds. There are many
important problems in the field. The topics to be discussed in the
conference include: the volume conjecture, angle structure and
hyperbolic 3-manifolds, and angle structures and volume
optimization.
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Center of Mathematical Sciences, Zhejiang University