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Summer Graduate School Sage Days 22: Computing with Elliptic Curves
William Stein (University of Washington)This workshop will introduce graduate students to several central ideas in the arithmetic of elliptic curves. Participants will join a project group that will focus mainly on one topic, possibly involving elliptic curves over number fields, complex or p-adic L-functions, Heegner points and Kolyvagin classes, Iwasawa theory, and the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture. The workshop will emphasize the essential interplay of abstract mathematics with explicit computation, which has played a central role in number theory ever since Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer made their famous conjecture in the 1960s. Participants will use, and improve, the free open-source Python-based mathematical software system Sage (http://www.sagemath.org) for computational projects.
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Monday10:00 AM - 10:55 AMElliptic curves and their L-functions
Tim Dokchitser11:00 AM - 11:55 AMWeinstein: talk 1
Jared Weinstein (Boston University)02:00 PM - 02:50 PMGreenberg: talk 1
Matthew Greenberg03:00 PM - 03:30 PMSage 22 Participants
Sage22 ParticipantsJun 22, 2010
Tuesday09:30 AM - 10:20 AMTables of Elliptic Curves
John Cremona (University of Warwick)10:30 AM - 11:20 AMArithmetic of mod p representations
Matthew Greenberg11:30 AM - 12:20 PMWuthrich: talk 1
Christian WuthrichJun 23, 2010
Wednesday10:00 AM - 10:50 AMVerifying optimality and Manin's conjecture
John Cremona (University of Warwick)10:50 AM - 11:30 AMComputing Heegner points in Sage
William Stein (University of Washington)Jun 24, 2010
Thursday10:00 AM - 10:50 AMComputing Isogenies
John Cremona (University of Warwick)11:00 AM - 11:50 AMFinding all elliptic curves with good reduction outside a given set of primes
John Cremona (University of Warwick)Jun 25, 2010
Friday09:10 AM - 10:10 AMWhat to demand from a Scientific Computing Language
Peter Norvig10:10 AM - 11:00 AMCython: the best of both worlds
Robert Bradshaw11:00 AM - 11:50 AMAn ecosystem for scientific computing
Fernando Perez02:00 PM - 02:50 PMPython in science and engineering education in India
Prabhu Ramachandran02:50 PM - 03:40 PMSage: creating an open source alternative to Ma*
William Stein (University of Washington)03:10 PM - 04:00 PMThe Foundation for mathematical and scientific computing
Jarrod Millman05:00 PM - 06:10 PMDiscussion
Sage22 ParticipantsJun 28, 2010
Monday10:00 AM - 10:50 AMInvitation to
Jared Weinstein (Boston University)11:00 AM - 11:50 AMGreenberg: talk 3
Matthew Greenberg04:00 PM - 05:00 PMCremona's students: presentations 1
Cremona's StudentsJun 29, 2010
Tuesday09:30 AM - 10:20 AMThe Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer formula
Tim Dokchitser10:30 AM - 11:20 AMWeinstein: talk 3
Jared Weinstein (Boston University)11:30 AM - 12:20 PMWuthrich: talk 2
Christian WuthrichJun 30, 2010
Wednesday09:30 AM - 10:20 AMWuthrich: talk 3
Christian Wuthrich10:30 AM - 11:20 AMParity predictions
Tim Dokchitser11:30 AM - 12:20 PMColloquium on Galois Representations
Kenneth Ribet (University of California, Berkeley)02:00 PM - 03:00 PMA Gentle Introduction to Overconvergent Modular Forms
Lloyd KilfordJul 01, 2010
Thursday09:30 AM - 10:20 AML-functions and root numbers (background)
Tim Dokchitser10:30 AM - 11:20 AMWuthrich: talk 4
Christian Wuthrich11:30 AM - 12:20 PMWeinstein: talk 4
Jared Weinstein (Boston University)Jul 02, 2010
Friday09:30 AM - 10:20 AMDokchitser's student presentations
Dokchister's Students10:30 AM - 11:50 AMGreenberg's student presentations
Greenberg's Students02:00 PM - 02:50 PMStein/Weinstein's student presentations
Stein_Weinstein's Students03:00 PM - 03:50 PMWuthrich's student presentations
Wuthrich's Students04:00 PM - 04:30 PMCremona students (part 2)
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MSRI-UP MSRI-UP 2010: Elliptic Curves and Applications
LEAD Duane Cooper (Morehouse College), Ricardo Cortez (Tulane University), Edray Goins (Purdue University), Herbert Medina (Loyola Marymount University), Ivelisse M. Rubio (University of Puerto Rico), Suzanne Weekes (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)The MSRI-UP summer program is designed for undergraduate students who have completed two years of university-level mathematics courses and would like to conduct research in the mathematical sciences. The academic portion of the program will be led by Dr. Edray Goins.
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Friday09:30 AM - 10:00 AMSquares in Arithmetic Progressions
Alexander Diaz, Markus Vasquez10:15 AM - 10:45 AMEncrypting Text Messeges via Elliptic Curve Cryptology
Renee Brady, Naleceia Davis, Anna Tracy11:00 AM - 11:30 AMABC Triples in Families
Alexander Barrios (Purdue University), Caleb Tillman, Charles Watts01:15 PM - 01:45 PMSearching for Elliptical Curves with Rank 9
Juan Cervantes, Kelsy Kinderknecht, Keatra Nesbitt02:00 PM - 02:30 PMDecrypting Text Messages via Elliptic Curve Factorization
Jose Ayala, Erin Jones, Toya Skeete02:45 PM - 03:15 PMRational Distance Sets on Conic Sections
Megan Ly, Shawn Tsosie (University of California, Santa Cruz), Lyda Urresta -
Workshop Critical Issues in Mathematics Education 2010: Reasoning and Sense-Making in the Math Curriculum
Dave Auckly, Scott Baldridge, Deborah Loewenberg Ball, Aaron Bertram, Wade Ellis, Deborah Hughes Hallett, Gary Martin, and William McCallum (Chair)The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics has just released a new document, Focus in High School Mathematics: Reasoning and Sense-Making. The Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Governor’s Association have initiated a state led effort to produce Common Core State Standards, which they hope will move states toward national curricular coherence. The national scene is being transformed through stimulus money aimed at having states adopt common standards. This is a significant time for mathematicians to weigh in for coherence and a focus on thinking, understanding and sense-making. For this reason MSRI will host the seventh Critical Issues in Mathematics Education Workshop on this topic. Themes of the workshop will include international comparisons, the role of a coherent national curriculum in the teaching of mathematics, and the ways in which technology can be used to support reasoning and sense-making.
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Monday09:00 AM - 10:00 AMWelcome, introductions, and opening remarks on the Common Core Standards
William McCallum (University of Arizona)10:30 AM - 12:00 PMQuestion 1 - Panel 1
Henry Kepner, David Masunaga, Hung-Hsi Wu (University of California, Berkeley)01:00 PM - 02:00 PMImpacting Teachers Through Curriculum Coherence
William Schmidt02:00 PM - 03:30 PMQuestion 1 - Panel 2
Anna Bargagliotti, Thomas Judson (Stephen F. Austin State University), Thomas Parker04:00 PM - 04:45 PMPresentation on implementing the Singapore curriculum
Kimberly Basley, Ben McCarty (University of Memphis), Robin Ramos04:45 PM - 05:30 PMPresentation on implementing U.S. curricula
James King, Brian Lawler (Kennesaw State University), Ginger Warfield, Gwen ZimmermannJun 08, 2010
Tuesday09:00 AM - 10:00 AMSingapore
Carmen Hoo, Sandi Kum, Soh Lian Pang10:00 AM - 11:00 AMIndia
Sridhar Rajagopalan11:30 AM - 12:30 PMAustralia
Elizabeth Burns, Helen Chick02:00 PM - 03:00 PMThe Race to the Top Assessment Consortia
Jason Zimba03:30 PM - 05:30 PMQuestion 2 - Panel
Linda Gojak (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics), Henry Kranendonk, Kim Seashore (San Francisco State University), Daniel TeagueJun 09, 2010
Wednesday09:00 AM - 10:30 AMQuestion 3 - Panel
Susan Addington (California State University), Judy Holdener, Nicholas Jackiw, Kurt Kreith (University of California, Davis)11:00 AM - 12:00 PMWrapup: What have we learned on Questions 1, 2, and 3?
Gail Burrill (Michigan State University), Deborah Hughes Hallett (University of Arizona), William McCallum (University of Arizona) -
Workshop Symplectic Geometry, Noncommutative Geometry and Physics
Robbert Dijkgraaf (Amsterdam), Tohru Eguchi (Kyoto), Yakov Eliashberg* (Stanford), Kenji Fukaya (Kyoto), Yoshiaki Maeda* (Yokohama), Dusa McDuff (Stony Brook), Paul Seidel (Cambridge, MA), Alan Weinstein* (Berkeley).
Sponsor: Hayashibara Foundation
Symplectic geometry originated as a mathematical language for Hamiltonian mechanics, but during the last 3 decades it witnessed both, spectacuar development of the mathematical theory and discovery of new connections and applications to physics. Meanwhile, non-commutative geometry naturally entered into this picture.Show All Collapse May 10, 2010
Monday11:00 AM - 12:00 PMMotivic Donaldson-Thomas invariants and wall-crossing formulas (1)
Yan Soibelman (Kansas State University)01:30 PM - 02:30 PMRemarks on Differential Cohomology
James Simons (Simons Foundation)02:35 PM - 03:35 PMLagrangian correspondences and holomorphic quilts
Katrin Wehrheim (University of California, Berkeley)04:15 PM - 05:15 PMLagrangian Floer theory of toric manifolds and mirror symmetry
Yong-Geun Oh (Institute for basic science)May 11, 2010
Tuesday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMTowards singular Lagrangian Floer theory
Manabu Akaho11:00 AM - 12:00 PMMotivic Donaldson-Thomas invariants and wall-crossing formulas (2)
Yan Soibelman (Kansas State University)01:30 PM - 02:30 PMTopological field theory and complex symplectic geometry
Anton Kapustin02:35 PM - 03:35 PMA symplectic category - chain level version and symplectic applications
Katrin Wehrheim (University of California, Berkeley)04:15 PM - 05:15 PMSpecial Lagrangian torus fi
Denis Auroux (University of California, Berkeley)May 12, 2010
Wednesday09:00 AM - 10:00 AMOn some deformation of Fukaya category
Hiroshige Kajiura10:30 AM - 11:30 AMMotivic Donaldson-Thomas invariants and wall-crossing formulas (3)
Yan Soibelman (Kansas State University)11:40 AM - 12:40 PMTopological quantum fi
Katrin Wehrheim (University of California, Berkeley)May 13, 2010
Thursday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMWall Crossing as Seen by M Theory and Matrix Models
Hirosi Ooguri11:00 AM - 12:00 PMSpecial Lagrangian torus fibrations and mirror symmetry (2)
Denis Auroux (University of California, Berkeley)01:30 PM - 02:30 PMMicrolocal category for a symplectic manifold
Dmitry Tamarkin02:35 PM - 03:35 PMMatrix model techniques in enumerative geometry
Bertrand Eynard04:15 PM - 05:15 PMLandau-Ginzburg/Calabi-Yau Correspondence
Yongbin Ruan (University of Michigan)May 14, 2010
Friday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMHomotopy algebra with operads
Bruno Vallette11:00 AM - 12:00 PMSpecial Lagrangian torus fi
Denis Auroux (University of California, Berkeley)01:30 PM - 02:30 PMWall Crossing, Quivers and Dimers
Mina Aganagic (University of California, Berkeley)03:00 PM - 04:00 PMEntropy of manifolds with reduced holonomy
Tohru Eguchi (Kyoto Sangyo University) -
Workshop Symplectic and Poisson Geometry in interaction with Algebra, Analysis and Topology
Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford University), Alvaro Pelayo* (University of California, Berkeley), Steve Zelditch (Northwestern University), Maciej Zworski (University of California, Berkeley)The first week of May 2010 coincides with the first year anniversary of Alan Weinstein's retirement from UC Berkeley; Weinstein has been one of the most influential figures in symplectic geometry, Poisson geometry and analysis in the past forty years. Weinstein's fundamental work inspired many others and led to the development of central concepts in symplectic and Poisson geometry, as well as to the establishment of symplectic geometry as an independent discipline within mathematics. This conference will be a forum to celebrate Weinstein's fundamental contributions to geometry and mathematics at large.
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Tuesday10:15 AM - 11:05 AMZoll-type phenomena in spectral theory
Victor Guillemin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)11:15 AM - 12:20 PMBoundary and Conjugacy Rigidity
Chris Croke02:00 PM - 02:50 PMAnother point of view on affine connections
Mélanie Bertelson03:20 PM - 04:10 PMConn's linearization theorem
Marius Crainic04:25 PM - 05:15 PMContact structures and the topology of 3-manifolds
Clifford Taubes (Harvard University)May 05, 2010
Wednesday09:10 AM - 10:00 AMGeometric aspects of the positivity of energy in quantum field theory
Graeme Segal (University of Oxford)10:15 AM - 11:05 AMSymplectic and spectral theory of semitoric integrable systems
San Vu-Ngoc11:30 AM - 12:20 PMThe Weinstein-Moser theorem and the motion of a change in a magnetic field
Viktor Ginzburg (University of California, Santa Cruz)02:00 PM - 02:50 PMOn a Poisson structure on conjugacy classes
Jiang-Hua Lu03:20 PM - 04:10 PMCompatible structures and Dirac pairs
Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach04:25 PM - 05:15 PMExperimental evidence for the occurrence of E_8 in nature and the radii of the Gosset circles
Bertram KostantMay 06, 2010
Thursday09:10 AM - 10:00 AMSpectral invariants and Lagrangian intersection: open-closed Floer theory
Yong-Geun Oh (Institute for basic science)10:15 AM - 11:05 AMPoisson Geometry in Control, Optimization, and Imaging
Tudor Ratiu11:30 AM - 12:20 PMCharacteristic classes and Courant algebroids
Ping Xu02:00 PM - 02:50 PMOn Hamiltonian structure of gauge theories
Nicolai Reshetikhin (University of California, Berkeley)May 07, 2010
Friday09:10 AM - 10:00 AMB-fields, quantization and Morita equivalence
Henrique Bursztyn10:15 AM - 11:05 AMSpectra for non-selfadjoint operators in two dimensions
Michael Hitrik11:30 AM - 12:20 PMSupergravity and gerbes on superspace
Ezra Getzler (Northwestern University)02:00 PM - 02:50 PMQuantization of Hamiltonian isotopies and applications to symplectic topology
Pierre Schapira -
Workshop Symplectic and Contact Topology and Dynamics: Puzzles and Horizons
Paul Biran (Tel Aviv University), John Etnyre (Georgia Institute of Technology), Helmut Hofer (Courant Institute), Dusa McDuff *(Barnard College), Leonid Polterovich (Tel Aviv University),This workshop will focus on recent progress in central problems in
symplectic and contact topology and Hamiltonian dynamics such as
rigidity of Lagrangian submanifolds, algebra/topology/geometry of
symplectomorphism and contactomorphism groups, exotic symplectic and
contact structures, and existence of
periodic orbits of Hamiltonian systems and Reeb flows.
It will explain applications of the "large machines"
such as Floer Theory, Symplectic Field Theory and Fukaya categories,
showing where these machines do not yet provide satisfactory
answers. Special attention will also be paid to articulating
new problems and
directions, as well as to explaining
interactions between symplectic and contact
topology and other fields.Show All Collapse Mar 22, 2010
Monday09:30 AM - 10:20 AMArnold's chord conjecture in dimension 3
Clifford Taubes (Harvard University)10:50 AM - 11:40 AMSymplectic Homogenization
Claude Viterbo (École Normale Supérieure)01:20 PM - 02:10 PMEnumerative invariants and Lagrangian cobordism
Octav Cornea (Université de Montréal)02:20 PM - 03:10 PMMonotone Lagrangian tori in CP^n and products of spheres
Felix Schlenk04:00 PM - 04:50 PMFramed bordism and Lagrangian embeddings of exotic spheres
Mohammed Abouzaid (Columbia University)Mar 23, 2010
Tuesday09:30 AM - 10:20 AMContact structures and sutured floer homology
Gordana Matic (University of Georgia)10:50 AM - 11:40 AMApplication of generating functions to contact rigidity phenomena in R^2n x S1
Sheila Sandon01:20 PM - 02:10 PMSymplectic circle actions with minimal fixed points
Susan Tolman02:20 PM - 03:10 PMMicrolocal condition for non-displaceability
Dmitry Tamarkin04:00 PM - 04:50 PMHomological Lagrangian Monodromy
François LalondeMar 24, 2010
Wednesday09:00 AM - 10:00 AMWeinstein's conjecture on symplectically fillable contact manifolds
Yong-Geun Oh (Institute for basic science)10:30 AM - 11:30 AMFloer homology on the universal cover and lagangion embeddings
Mihai Damian11:45 AM - 12:45 PMEmbeddings of ellipsoids
Richard HindMar 25, 2010
Thursday09:30 AM - 10:20 AMHF-hat = EC-hat via open book decompositions
Ko Honda10:50 AM - 11:40 AMSome observations about the size of tubular neighborhoods in contact geometry
Klaus Niederkruger01:20 PM - 02:10 PMFiltered Floer theory and Hamiltonian dynamics
Michael Usher02:20 PM - 03:10 PMOn Rabinowitz Floer homology
Urs Frauenfelder04:00 PM - 04:50 PMConvexity package for momentum maps on contact manifolds
Yael KarshonMar 26, 2010
Friday09:30 AM - 10:20 AMSpectral invariants in Rabinowitz Floer homology and applications
Peter Albers10:50 AM - 11:40 AMContact and Lagrangian Floer homologies of toric manifolds
Miguel Abreu01:20 PM - 02:20 PMOpen books and fiber sums, SFT and ECH: a plethora of obstructions to symplectic filling
Chris Wendl02:20 PM - 03:10 PMEnhanced intersection numbers
Paul Seidel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) -
Workshop Research Workshop: Homology Theories of Knots and Links
Peter S. Ozsváth* (Columbia University), Mikhail Khovanov (Columbia University), Peter Teichner (UC Berkeley).Link homology is a young and rapidly-developing area drawing on many branches of mathematics. The subject has its roots in representation theory, and it has benefitted from its interactions with low-dimensional, classical, and quantum topology and symplectic geometry. Indeed, several recent developments have underscored the close parallels between link homology and Floer homological invariants for low-dimensional manifolds.
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Monday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMA 2-category associated with a holomorphic symplectic manifold
Tim Perutz11:00 AM - 12:00 PMCategorification of coloured Jones and 3j-symbols
Catharina Stroppel (Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics, University of Bonn)02:00 PM - 03:00 PMA categorification of quantum sl2
Aaron Lauda (University of Southern California)03:30 PM - 04:30 PMThe diagrammatic Soergel category and sl(N)-foams
Pedro VazMar 16, 2010
Tuesday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMHochschild homology via time dilation
Robert Lipshitz (Columbia University)11:00 AM - 12:00 PMThe lens space realization problem
Joshua Greene02:00 PM - 03:00 PMTopological approach to Heegaard Floer homology I
András Stipsicz03:30 PM - 04:30 PMA topological approach to Heegaard Floer homology, II
Zoltan SzaboMar 17, 2010
Wednesday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMTopological Quantum Information, Khovanov Homology and the Jones Polynomial
Louis Kauffman (University of Illinois at Chicago)11:00 AM - 12:00 PMCategorification of quantum groups and quantum knot invariants
Benjamin Webster02:00 PM - 03:00 PMHolomorphic triangles and maps induced by contact structures
Jacob Rasmussen03:30 PM - 04:30 PMLagrangian correspondences and invariants for 3-manifolds with boundary
Tim PerutzMar 18, 2010
Thursday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMA combinatorial approach to Heegaard Floer invariants
Ciprian Manolescu (University of California, Los Angeles)11:00 AM - 12:00 PMSutured Floer homology and minimal genus Seifert surfaces
Sucharit Sarkar01:00 PM - 02:00 PMComultiplication in link Floer homology and transversely non-simple links
John Baldwin02:30 PM - 03:30 PMThe Unoriented Skein Relation for Instanton Knot Floer homology
Tomasz Mrowka (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)Mar 19, 2010
Friday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMFukaya categories of symmetric products and bordered Heegaard-Floer homology
Denis Auroux (University of California, Berkeley)11:00 AM - 12:00 PMOn sutured Khovanov homology and sutured Floer homology
Eli Grigsby02:00 PM - 03:00 PM"Filtered Seiberg-Witten Floer homologies with "almost harmonic" perturbations
Yi-Jen Lee (Chinese University of Hong Kong)03:30 PM - 04:30 PMFrom Khovanov homology to instanton homology for knots
Peter Kronheimer (Harvard University) -
Workshop Introductory Workshop: Homology Theories of Knots and Links
Aaron Lauda (Columbia University), Robert Lipshitz (Columbia University), Dylan Thurston* (Columbia University).This workshop will introduce the main branches in the study of knot homology theories. It will consist of three mini-courses, one on knot Floer homology and related topics; one on the various approaches to
Khovanov and Khovanov-Rozansky homology; and one on categorification on quantum groups. (There will also be several stand-alone lectures.) The techniques involved in the three branches are quite different; in
particular, Heegaard Floer theory is analytic in nature, with its origin in gauge theory and symplectic geometry, while both Khovanov homology and categorification are more algebraic in nature, with origins in representation theory and algebraic geometry. The workshop will provide an opportunity for graduate students and researchers
outside the field to gain entry, as well as for researchers working in one part of the field to learn about techniques and developments in other parts.Show All Collapse Jan 25, 2010
Monday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMHeegaard Floer Homology I
Matthew Hedden11:00 AM - 12:00 PMKhovanov Homology I
Scott Morrison (Australian National University)01:30 PM - 02:30 PMCategorical quantum group actions in geometry, I
Sabin Cautis (University of British Columbia)Jan 26, 2010
Tuesday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMHeegaard Floer Homology II
Matthew Hedden11:00 AM - 12:00 PMLegendrian Knots I
Lenhard Ng02:30 PM - 03:30 PMKhovanov Homology II
Scott Morrison (Australian National University)04:00 PM - 05:00 PMCategorical quantum group actions in geometry, II
Sabin Cautis (University of British Columbia)Jan 27, 2010
Wednesday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMSutured Floer Homology I
Andras Juhasz11:00 AM - 12:00 PMLegendrian knots II
Lenhard Ng02:30 PM - 03:30 PMKhovanov-Rozansky Homology I
Ben Webster04:00 PM - 05:00 PMIntroduction to Instanton Floer Homology
Tomasz Mrowka (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)Jan 28, 2010
Thursday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMSutured Floer Homology II
Andras Juhasz11:00 AM - 12:00 PMKhovanov-Rozansky Homology II
Ben Webster02:30 PM - 02:30 PMA categorification of quantum sl(2)
Aaron Lauda (University of Southern California)04:00 PM - 05:00 PMApplications of sl(2) Categorification
Anthony LicataJan 29, 2010
Friday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMDiagrammatic categorification of quantum groups II
Aaron Lauda (University of Southern California)11:00 AM - 12:00 PMKnot Homology for Quantum Invariants Through Pictures
Ben Webster01:30 PM - 02:30 PMA connection between Khovanov homology and Heegaard Floer homology
Eli Grigsby03:00 PM - 04:00 PMLegendrian and Transverse Classification of twist knots.
Vera Vertesi (Université de Strasbourg) -
Workshop Connections for Women: Homology Theories of Knots and Links
Elisenda Grigsby* (Columbia), Olga Plamenevskaya (SUNY/Stonybrook), and Katrin Wehrheim (MIT)This 2-day workshop will serve as a prelude to the introductory workshop for the semester-long program on homology theories of knots and links. Survey talks in the mornings will position the work in Khovanov and Heegaard Floer homology in a broader context, focusing on:
1) applications to classical questions in low-dimensional topology, and
2) connections to contact and symplectic topology.Research talks in the afternoons will highlight the range of current activity in the field. We plan a format of no more than four talks each day to allow ample time for presentation opportunities for younger researchers and formal and informal discussions.
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Thursday09:00 AM - 10:30 AMIntroduction to knot homology theories and categorification
Eli Grigsby10:30 AM - 11:30 AMIntroduction to Floer Theory
Dusa McDuff (Barnard College)01:30 PM - 02:30 PMSpringer varieties from the topological perspective
Heather Russell03:00 PM - 04:00 PMPseudo-Anosov maps and dilatations
Keiko Kawamuro04:15 PM - 05:15 PMThe universal sl(2) foam cohomology
Carmen CaprauJan 22, 2010
Friday09:00 AM - 10:00 AMKnot and Link Concordance
Shelly Harvey (Rice University)10:30 AM - 11:30 AMContact Invariants in Floer Homology
Gordana Matic (University of Georgia)01:30 PM - 02:30 PMKnots in contact structures and Heegaard Floer homology
Vera Vertesi (Université de Strasbourg)03:00 PM - 04:00 PMCombinatorial invariants for Legendrian knots
Joan Licata04:15 PM - 05:15 PMCables of thin knots and bordered Heegaard Floer homology
Ina Petkova05:00 PM - 05:30 PMLegendrian Knots and Open Book Decompositions
Sinem Onaran