Workshop “Low-dimensional Topology after Floer”

July 8-12, 2013

Program

 

Monday, July 8, 2013

09:00 - 09:30
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:30
John Etnyre
(Georgia Institute of Technology)
Sutured manifolds, limits and knot Heegaard Floer homology
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 12:00
Christopher Cornwell
(Duke University)
Knot contact homology and representations of the knot group
Abstract
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00
Clifford Taubes
(Harvard University)
Extensions of Uhlenbeck's compactness theorem for SL(2;C) connections in dimensions 3 and 4 (part I)
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:30
Clifford Taubes
(Harvard University)
Extensions of Uhlenbeck's compactness theorem for SL(2;C) connections in dimensions 3 and 4 (part II)
Abstract

 

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 10:00
Jake Rasmussen
(University of Cambridge)
Colored HOMFLY homology of rational knots
Abstract
10:00 - 10:15
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
10:15 - 11:15
Paolo Ghiggini
(CNRS et Université de Nantes)
Holomorphic Cthulhus and cultist maps
Abstract
11:15 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:30 - 12:30
Ciprian Manolescu
(UCLA)
Floer homology and the triangulation conjecture
Abstract
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00
Christopher Woodward
(Rutgers University)
Quilted Floer theory
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
15:30 - 16:30
Kenneth Baker
(University of Miami)
On a Cabling Conjecture for knots in lens spaces
Abstract

 

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 10:00
Ko Honda
(University of Southern California)
Open book decompositions and Floer type homologies I
Abstract
10:00 - 10:15
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
10:15 - 11:15
Vincent Colin
(Université de Nantes)
Open book decompositions and Floer type homologies II
Abstract
11:15 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:30 - 12:30
Lenhard L. Ng
(Duke University)
The augmentation polynomial and topological strings
Abstract

Free afternoon

 

Thursday, July 11, 2013

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:30
Elisenda Grigsby
(Boston College)
Plamenevskaya's invariant and trivial braid detection
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 12:00
Matthew Hedden
(Michigan State University)
Floer homology and Fractional Dehn twists
Abstract
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00
John Baldwin
(Boston College)
A Bordered Monopole Floer Theory
Abstract
15:00 - 15:15
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
15:15 - 16:15
Nikolai Saveliev
(University of Miami)
Instanton Floer homology of admissible bundles
Abstract
16:15 - 16:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:30 - 17:30
Stefano Vidussi
(UC Riverside)
On the topology of SCY 4-manifolds
Abstract

 

Friday, July 12, 2013

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 10:00
Michael Hutchings
(UC Berkeley)
Extensions of the Weinstein conjecture in three dimensions
Abstract
10:00 - 10:15
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
10:15 - 11:15
Paul Kirk
(Indiana University)
The pillowcase and perturbations of traceless representations
Abstract
11:15 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:30 - 12:30
Kim Froyshov
(Aarhus University)
Bogomolny monopoles and the existence of representations
Abstract
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00
To be confirmed