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Low Dimensional Topology

August 11, 2008 to August 15, 2008
Organized By: Elisenda Grigsby, Rob Schneiderman, Peter Teichner and Kevin Walker
 
Participant List:
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Please note: Because we have had such a wonderful response to this workshop, we have run out of space. We're sorry for any inconvenience, but this has forced us to close registration. Thank you for your interest in our Low Dimensional Topology Workshop. I hope you will consider attending other workshops here in the near future.



In recent years, there has been lots of exciting progress in many branches of low-dimensional topology, including Heegard Floer and Khovanov Homology, small 4-Manifolds, TQFT, knot concordance and Lefschetz fibrations. These are the main themes of this workshop whose format will be three one-hour lectures every day, two in the morning and one survey lecture in the afternoon (except for Friday). This survey lecture will be followed by a panel for experts, lead by the afternoon speaker and some other leaders of the field. The panel will discuss current developments and open problems and it can be extended into the late afternoon if so desired by the panelists.

There will be a banquet on Thursday, August 14, to celebrate Rob Kirby's birthday at the Auditorium of the International House. All participants and their guests are cordially invited to attend this social highlight of the workshop. It is partially sponsored by UC Berkeley but everybody needs to register and make a contribution to the costs at the following website. It also contains more details about the event. Banquet registration.

Accommodations:

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Rose Garden Inn. Reservations may be made by calling 1-800-992-9005 OR directly on their website. Click on “Reservations and Availability” then click on “Corporate” at the bottom of the screen and enter the word “math”. Enter Group Code CGMS60 in the “Guest Comment” box, and provide requested information
The cut-off date for reservations is July 25, 2008.

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hotel Durant. Please mention the workshop name and reference the following code when making reservations via phone, fax or e-mail: BK0000. The cut-off date for reservations is July 11, 2008.

We have reserved more rooms at the Double Tree Berkeley Marina Hotel. For reservations, please visit: their website to enter your arrival and departure dates and click ”go.” To get our discounted rate please enter the three letter code on the Group/Convention Code:LDT. You can also call the hotel directly: 510-548-7920 and ask for reservation under the group name Low Dimensional Topology.




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Schedule

Monday August 11, 2008

09:30AM - 10:30AM  Michael Freedman Towards quantum characteristic classes
11:00AM - 12:00PM  Stefano Vidussi Twisted Alexander polynomials and fibrations of 3-manifolds
01:30PM - 02:30PM  Ronald Stern 4-manifolds, big and small    (See Abstract)
02:30PM - 03:00PM  Small 4-Manifold Panel
04:30PM - 09:00PM  Picnic at Codornices Park    (See Abstract)

Tuesday August 12, 2008

09:30AM - 10:30AM  Sergei Gukov Knot Homologies via Instanton Counting
11:00AM - 12:00PM  Dror Bar-Natan Projectivization, W-Knots, Kashiwara-Vergne and Alekseev-Torossian
01:30PM - 02:30PM  Denis Auroux Broken Lefschetz fibrations on smooth 4-manifolds    (See Abstract)
02:30PM - 03:00PM  Lefschetz Fibration Panel
06:00PM - 10:00PM  Pizza, Beer, Poker and Music in 1015 Evans

Wednesday August 13, 2008

09:30AM - 10:30AM  Ko Honda Contact structures, Heegaard Floer homology and triangulated categories    (See Abstract)
11:00AM - 12:00PM  Anna Beliakova Unified Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants of rational homology 3-spheres
01:30PM - 02:30PM  Robion Kirby The origin of the calculus (not Newton's)
02:30PM - 03:00PM  History Panel
08:00PM - 10:00PM  Rob Schneiderman Anna's Jazz Island in Berkeley

Thursday August 14, 2008

09:30AM - 10:30AM  Mikhail Khovanov Categorification of quantum groups
11:00AM - 12:00PM  Andras Juhasz Sutured Floer homology and Seifert surfaces    (See Abstract)
01:30PM - 02:30PM  Peter Ozsvath Heegaard Floer homology
02:30PM - 03:00PM  Heegaard Floer Panel
06:30PM - 10:30PM  Banquet at International House (see details)

Friday August 15, 2008

09:00AM - 10:00AM  Slava Krushkal 4-manifolds and the A-B slice problem    (See Abstract)
10:15AM - 11:15AM  Constance Leidy Knot Concordance and Higher-Order Blanchfield Duality    (See Abstract)
11:30AM - 12:30PM  Clifford Taubes The Seiberg-Witten equations and dynamics of vector fields in dimension 3

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