Conference Schedule
[Abstracts of talks in pdf format]
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WEDNESDAY |
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| 9:00- 9:30 | Registration and coffee | |
| 9:30-10:20 |
F. Quinn
Characteristic Structures and Behaviors in High and Low Dimensions |
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| 10:30-11:20 |
Z. Szabó
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Exotic Smooth Structures on CP2#n CP2 |
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| Coffee break | ||
| 11:40-12:30 |
T. Li
Heegaard Surfaces and Measured Laminations | |
| Lunch | ||
| 2:00- 2:50 |
C. Gordon
Knots with Unknotting Number 1 and Conway Spheres | |
| 3:00- 3:50 |
I. Agol
Rank and Heegaard Genus of Arithmetic 3-Manifolds | |
| Coffee break | ||
| 4:10- 5:00 |
N. Dunfield
Does a Random 3-Manifold Fiber over the Circle? | |
| 5:10- 6:00 |
O. Plamenevskaya
Transverse Links, Khovanov Homology and Contact Structures on Branched Double Covers | |
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THURSDAY |
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| 8:30- 9:00 | Coffee | |
| 9:00- 9:50 |
Z. Szabó
Holomorphic Disks and Heegaard Diagrams | |
| 10:00-10:50 |
B. Kleiner
Perelman's Work on Ricci Flow | |
| Coffee break | ||
| 11:10-12:00 |
D. Ruberman
Rohlin's Invariant and Gauge Theory | |
| Lunch | ||
| 2:00- 2:50 |
J. Rasmussen
Khovanov Homology and Embedded Surfaces | |
| 3:00- 3:50 |
J. Andersen
Asymptotic Faithfulness of the Quantum SU(n) Representations of the Mapping Class Groups | |
| Coffee break | ||
| 4:10- 5:00 |
Y. Lee
Heegaard Splitting and Seiberg-Witten Monopoles | |
| 5:10- 6:00 |
E. Eftekhary
Filtration of Heegaard Floer Homology and Gluing Formulas | |
| 8:00pm Lecture by Helaman Ferguson | ||
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FRIDAY |
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| 8:30- 9:00 | Coffee | |
| 9:00- 9:50 |
Z. Szabó
Some Applications of Heegaard Floer Homology | |
| 10:00-10:50 |
M. Khovanov
Matrix Factorizations and Link Homology | |
| Coffee break | ||
| 11:10-12:00 |
L. Rozansky
Matrix Factorizations and the Categorification of the SU(N) HOMFLY polynomial | |
| Lunch | ||
| Afternoon Excursion | ||
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SATURDAY |
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| 8:30- 9:00 | Coffee | |
| 9:00- 9:50 |
F. Quinn
Are Topological 4-Manifolds High-Dimensional? | |
| 10:00-10:50 |
T. Cochran
Homological Equivalence, Duality and Group Theory | |
| Coffee break | ||
| 11:10-12:00 |
S. Harvey
Homology Cobordism of 3-Manifolds | |
| Lunch | ||
| 2:00- 2:50 |
T. Kim
Non-Triviality of the Cochran-Orr-Teichner Filtration of the Knot Concordance Group | |
| 3:00- 3:50 |
R. Schneiderman
Whitney Towers, Gropes and Links | |
| Coffee break | ||
| 4:10- 5:00 |
J. Conant
A Chirality Conjecture Concerning Congruence Classes of Conway Coefficients | |
| 5:10- 6:00 |
S. Friedl
Twisted Alexander Polynomials and the Thurston Norm | |
| 7:00pm Conference Banquet at Oxo Restaurant | ||
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SUNDAY |
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| 8:00- 8:30 | Coffee | |
| 8:30- 9:20 |
F. Quinn
Dual Decompositions and s-Cobordisms of 4-Manifolds | |
| 9:35-10:25 |
M. Kapovich
3-Dimensional Poincare Duality Groups | |
| 10:40-11:30 |
W. Floyd
The Subdivision Complex at Infinity | |
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