There is no fee for the conference and no pre-registration. The talks will be held in 208 Maxim Doucet Hall on our campus. Parking will be available in the lot in front of Maxim Doucet Hall.

There will be a dinner starting right after the last talk on Friday. Even if you arrive late please come and join us. There will be no charge for dinner for the conference participants and their spouses.

Organizers: Daniel Davis, Maciej Niebrzydowski, Vic Schneider, Roger Waggoner, and Thelma West
For more information please contact (e-mail) Thelma West.

SCHEDULE

Friday

2:00-2:45
Chain Covers of Graphs
Logan Hoehn
University of Toronto

3:00-3:45
The Role of Metric Compacta in the Hahn-Mazurkiewic Problem
Dale Daniel
Lamar University

4:00-4:45
Atriodic Continua
Wayne Lewis
Texas Tech University

5:00-5:45
Tree-like Continua and the Mittag-Leffler Property of Sequences of Fundamental Groups
Piotr Minc
Auburn University

Friday Night Dinner
Don's Seafood and Steakhouse Restaurant
301 E Vermillion Street
(337) 235-3551

Saturday

8:30-9:15
Periodic Points Near an Adding Machine
Krystyna Kuperberg
Auburn University

9:30-10:15
Arcs and Circles: Why Do We Like Them So Much?
Jim Rogers
Tulane University

10:30-11:15
The Topology of 1-Manifolds and Period Doubling Cascades
Jim Yorke
University of Maryland

11:30-12:15
More of n-fold Hyperspaces
Sergio Macias
Instituto de Matematicas
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

12:15-2:00
Lunch

2:00-2:45
Inverse Limits with Set-valued Functions
Tom Ingram
Professor Emeritus, Missouri University of Science and Technology

3:00-3:45
The Set of Packing and Covering Densities of Convex Disks
Wlodek Kuperberg
Auburn University

4:00-4:45
Tate Spectra, Bimodules, and Calculus of Functors
Michael Ching
University of Georgia

Saturday Night Dinner
Alumni Center
600 E. St. Mary Blvd.

Sunday

8:30-9:15
Theta Functions and Knots
Razvan Gelca
Texas Tech University

9:30-10:15
Grothendieck-Witt Groups and a Counter-Example to Invariance Under Derived Equivalences
Marco Schlichting
Louisiana State University

10:30-11:15
Skein Modules of 3-manifolds: From First Homology to Khovanov Homology
Jozef Przytycki
George Washington University

11:30-12:15
The RO(G)-Graded Ring Structure on Bredon and Deligne Cohomology for Real Algebraic Curves
Paulo Lima-Filho
Texas A&M University

Travelodge Lafayette Oil Center
1101 W. Pinhook Road
(10-15 min. walk)
Lafayette, LA 70503
337-234-7402
Web page
Special Conference Rate $50 + tax per night. Make your reservation by October 23, 2009. Mention the conference to get this rate.