Schedule

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Wednesday

8:00-9:00	Registration Centennial Student Union (CSU) Ostrander Auditorium
9:00-10:00	Justin Tatch Moore Iterated forcing and the Continuum Hypothesis Centennial Student Union (CSU) Ostrander Auditorium
10:00-10:30	Coffee Break CSU 284
10:30-11:25	Jesse Johnson Geometric Topology Workshop: Embedded Surfaces in 3-Manifolds Morris Hall 102			Luca Zamboni Dynamical Systems Workshop: Partition Regularity and Words Morris Hall 103
	Geometric Topology Session Morris Hall 102	Dynamical Systems Session Morris Hall 103	Asymmetric Topology Session Morris Hall 208		Set-Theoretic Topology Session Morris Hall 210	Continuum Theory Session Morris Hall 211
11:30-11:55	Trent Schirmer A new result on tunnel number subadditivity				Alan Dow Countable Frechet spaces	Chris Mouron The dynamics of group actions on continua
12:00-12:25	Mike Williams Advanced Positions of Torus Knots				Afshin Mardani Closed non-metrisable subspaces of the product of the long line and a metric manifold	Murat Tuncali Hereditarily indecomposable inverse limits of graphs: shadowing, mixing and exactness
12:25-2:00	Lunch
2:00-3:00	Ralph Kopperman Asymmetric Topology CSU Ostrander Auditorium
3:00-3:30	Coffee Break CSU 284
	Geometric Topology Session Morris Hall 102	Dynamical Systems Session Morris Hall 103	Asymmetric Topology Session Morris Hall 208		Set-Theoretic Topology Session Morris Hall 210	Continuum Theory Session Morris Hall 211
3:30-3:55	Eric Staron The Unknotting Number of 3-Stranded Pretzel Knots	Louis Block Patterns, Topological Transitivity, and Entropy	Jimmie Lawson Dualities of Stably Compact Spaces		Russell Waller Baire and weakly Namioka spaces
4:00-4:25	Abhijit Champanerkar Quasi-alternating Montesinos links	Nazli Uresin Abstract Topological Dynamics Involving Set-valued Functions	Strashmir G. Popvassilev Bitopological and Asymmetric Generalizations of Ellis' Theorem		Saleem Watson Correspondences between ideals and z-filters for rings of continuous functions between C* and C
4:30-4:55		Jed Keesling Using the Ripley k-function to estimate the Hausdorff dimension of certain sets	Homeira Pajoohesh k-Metric Spaces		Strashmir G. Popvassilev On monotone paracompactness
6:00-8:00	Conference Banquet Centennial Student Union (CSU) Ballroom

Thursday

9:00-10:00	Henk Bruin This monotonous thing called entropy CSU Ostrander Auditorium
10:00-10:30	Coffee Break CSU 284
10:30-11:25	Jesse Johnson Geometric Topology Workshop: Embedded Surfaces in 3-Manifolds Morris Hall 102			Luca Zamboni Dynamical Systems Workshop: Partition Regularity and Words Morris Hall 103
	Geometric Topology Session Morris Hall 102	Dynamical Systems Session Morris Hall 103	Asymmetric Topology Session Morris Hall 208		Set-Theoretic Topology Session Morris Hall 210	Continuum Theory Session Morris Hall 211
11:30-11:55	Mathew Timm Centers of Generalized Baumslag-Solitar Groups	Krystyna Kuperberg Surfaces with hollow dynamics	AM Abdul-Jabbar Faint A-Continuity and Faint A*-Continuity in Topological Spaces		Hamidreza Rahimi Compactification of Topological Inverse Semigroups	Jose Anaya Making holes in the hyperspace of subcontinua
12:00-12:25	Tony Bedenikovic The Asphericity Question for LOT Complexes	Michael Sullivan Progress on Nonsingular Smale Flows	Yulan Qing Boundary of CAT(0) Space		Benjamin Vejnar Topological compactifications	Ferdando Orozco-Zitli Making holes in the hyperspace of subcontinua of some continua
12:25-2:00	Lunch
2:00-3:00	Abigail Thompson Heegaard splittings, distance, and structures of 3-manifolds Centennial Student Union (CSU) Ostrander Auditorium
3:00-3:30	Coffee Break CSU 284
	Geometric Topology Session Morris Hall 102	Dynamical Systems Session Morris Hall 103	Asymmetric Topology Session Morris Hall 208		Set-Theoretic Topology Session Morris Hall 210	Continuum Theory Session Morris Hall 211
3:30-3:55	Mario Eudave-Munoz Non-orientable surfaces in knot exteriors	Russell Waller Pseudo-Anosov flows in graph manifolds with periodic pieces	Steve Matthews Inconsistent Partial Metric Spaces		Anatoly Gryzlov On the cardinality of topological spaces	David Maya Making holes in the second symmetric products of smooth dendroids
4:00-4:25	Jesse Johnson Thin position and the topology of large data sets	PG Vaidya Estimating the Dimension of a Manifold using Nonlinear Singular Value Decomposition	Charly M. Kivuvu On B-completion and Balanced Mappings in Fuzzy Quasi-Metric Spaces		Ivan S. Gotchev More cardinal inequalities for Hausdorff spaces	Javier Sanchez Martinez Embedding products in symmetric products of continua
4:30-4:55					Prabudh Misra Finite Subsemigroups of S(R)	Van Nall Inverse limits with set valued functions and products limited by closed relations
5:00-6:00	Janusz Prajs The Study of Homogeneous Continua and Its Connection to Compact Connected Topological Groups and Isometrically Homogeneous Continua Centennial Student Union (CSU) Ostrander Auditorium
8:00-9:00	Advisory Committee Meeting 101 Main Restaurant (Inside City Center Hotel, downtown Mankato)

Friday

9:00-10:00	Doyel Barman Selective Separability and SS+ Centennial Student Union (CSU) Ostrander Auditorium
10:00-10:30	Coffee Break CSU 284
10:30-11:25	Jesse Johnson Geometric Topology Workshop: Embedded Surfaces in 3-Manifolds Morris Hall 102			Luca Zamboni Dynamical Systems Workshop: Partition Regularity and Words Morris Hall 103
	Geometric Topology Session Morris Hall 102	Dynamical Systems Session Morris Hall 103	Asymmetric Topology Session Morris Hall 208		Set-Theoretic Topology Session Morris Hall 210	Continuum Theory Session Morris Hall 211
11:30-11:55	Joseph Maher Topological and metric complexities for hyperbolic 3-manifolds	Hideki Tsuiki Kneading Theory via Two-Dimensional Full-Folding Maps	Joseph Van Name A Duality for Ultraparacompact Frames		PP Murthy Remark on some recent fixed point theorems	ED Tymchatin Nonseparating Subcontinua of Planar Curves
12:00-12:25	Erica Flapan Topological Symmetry Groups	Olga Lukina Suspensions of Bernoulli shifts	Lawrence M. Brown Ditopologies and Diframes		Denis I. Sveliev On idempotents in compact left topological universal algebras	Felix Capulin Perez Selections, Type N continua and confluent mappings between fans
12:25-2:00	Lunch
2:00-3:00	Stephen E. Rodabaugh Programming Semantics, Topological Systems, and Lattice-Valued Topology Centennial Student Union (CSU) Ostrander Auditorium
3:00-3:30	Coffee Break CSU 284
	Geometric Topology Session Morris Hall 102	Dynamical Systems Session Morris Hall 103	Asymmetric Topology Session Morris Hall 208		Set-Theoretic Topology Session Morris Hall 210	Continuum Theory Session Morris Hall 211
3:30-3:55	Scott Taylor Attaching a 2-handle to a suture	PG Vaidya Application of Topology to ECG data analysis	PP Murthy Extended Contractions Involving f-g Reciprocally Continuous Maps in Fuzzy Metric Spaces		Francis Jordan When C(X) with the finest splitting topology is a topological group	Claudia Dominguez-Lopez Boundaries in hyperspaces
4:00-4:25	Ryan Blair Essential Surfaces in Highly Twisted Knot Exteriors	Bogdan Atamanyuk The preservation of geometrical properties under the topological conjugations	Sumitra Dalal CLRg Property for Coupled Fixed Point Theorems in Fuzzy Metric Spaces		Varun Jindal Path Components in the Uniform Spaces of Continuous Functions From A Tychonoff Space to a Banach Space	David Ryden Variations on a Theme of Sorgenfrey
4:30-4:55					Peter Nyikos The main topological properties of some uniform box products	Krystyna Kuperberg Lowest dimension HNBH continua
5:00-6:00	Sonja Stimac New methods in studying the inverse limit spaces of unimodal maps Centennial Student Union (CSU) Ostrander Auditorium

Saturday

8:00-9:00	Jesse Johnson Geometric Topology Workshop: Embedded Surfaces in 3-Manifolds Morris Hall 102			Luca Zamboni Dynamical Systems Workshop: Partition Regularity and Words Morris Hall 103
	Geometric Topology Session Morris Hall 102	Dynamical Systems Session Morris Hall 103	Asymmetric Topology Session Morris Hall 208		Set-Theoretic Topology Session Morris Hall 210	Continuum Theory Session Morris Hall 211
9:05-9:30	Habeeb Mtashar Abood Viasman-Gray Manifold with Vanishing Conharmonic Curvature Tensor	Lori Alvin Toeplitz kneading sequences and adding machines			CK Basu Maximal and minimal uniformizablity with respect to normal isolator covers and normal sequence of covers
9:35-10:00	Usen Abdymanapov Geometry of real (complex) orbifolds star body	James Maissen Equivariant subsets of Peano continuua under p-adic actions			Chris Good A space that admits all possible orbit spectra of homeomorphisms of uncountable compact metric spaces
10:00-10:30	Coffee Break CSU 284
10:30-11:30	Judy Kennedy Inverse Limits with Set-Valued Functions on Intervals: an Overview CSU Ostrander Auditorium
11:30-12:30	Scott Taylor Knots with exceptional surgeries have low bridge distance CSU Ostrander Auditorium
12:30-1:30	Free Lunch Buffet Provided! CSU 284