Geometry, Topology and Dynamics Seminar
Ian Agol
UC Berkeley
The virtual fibering conjecture and related questions
Abstract: Thurston asked a bold question of whether finite volume
hyperbolic 3-manifolds might always admit a finite-sheeted cover which
fibers over the circle. This talk will review some of the progress on this
question, and discuss its relation to other questions including subgroup
separability, the behavior of Heegaard genus in finite-sheeted covers,
CAT(0) cubings, and subgroups of right-angled reflection groups. Some
applications of the techniques will also be mentioned.
Monday April 13, 2009 at 3:00 PM in SEO 612