Hello everyone,

As you all know, Bus is stepping down as chair on June 30th. So to celebrate we were thinking of having a mini-conference July 22-23. We were going to focus on layered solid handlebodies, which Bus will be speaking about. Robert and I will be speaking about layered solid tori and bi-twist manifolds.

We would also be happy if grad students got involved and volunteered to give a talk or too. For example, it would be cool to have someone do a short presentation on using regina and we might have a working afternoon where we try to program up a layered solid handlebody triangulation generator. Contact me if you are interested in joining us.

Best,

Neil

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Neil R. Hoffman Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics 523 Math Science Building Oklahoma State University Stillwater, OK 74078-1058 405-744-7791 http://math.okstate.edu/people/nhoffman