View the Workshop in Geometric Topology schedule in PDF here.
All talks will be in EMS E190. This room is equipped with sliding white boards, a computer, projector, and laser pointer/clicker.
Thursday, May 30, 2019
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00-8:50 | Registration and Breakfast – EMS E424A | |
| 8:50-9:00 | Scott Gronert, Dean College of Letters and Sciences |
Welcome |
| 9:00-9:20 | Jonah Gaster McGill University |
Discrete harmonic maps between hyperbolic surfaces |
| 9:30-9:50 | Arka Banerjee University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
Coarse Alexander Duality |
| 10:00-10:20 | Mat Timm Bradley University |
The Schur Multiplier of a Generalized Baumslag-Solitar Group |
| 10:30-11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00-12:00 | Ciprian Manolescu University of California, Los Angeles |
Talk 1: Triangulations of manifolds |
| 12:00-1:30 | Lunch | |
| 1:30-1:50 | Adam Howard Montana State University |
Trisections of 4-manifolds |
| 2:00-2:20 | Sudipta Kolay Georgia Institute of Technology |
Braid index of knotted surfaces |
| 2:30-2:50 | Jun Li University of Michigan |
Smooth and symplectic isotopy on rational 4-manifolds |
| 3:00-3:20 | Mark Hughes Brigham Young University |
Describing surfaces and isotopies in 4-manifolds via banded unlinks |
| 3:30-4:00 | Break | |
| 4:00-4:20 | John Ratcliffe Vandelbilt University |
Salem numbers and arithmetic hyperbolic group |
| 4:30-4:50 | Qayum Khan Saint Louis University |
Countable approximation of topological G-manifolds |
| 5:00-5:20 | Greg Friedman Texas Christian University |
What is sheaf cohomology? |
Friday, May 31, 2019
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00-9:00 | Breakfast EMS E495 | |
| 9:00-9:20 | Surena Hozoori Georgia Institute of Technology |
Dynamics and Topology of Conformally Anosov Contact 3-Manifolds |
| 9:30-9:50 | Genho Lim Indiana University |
Cheeger-Gromov L^2 rho-invariants of 3-manifolds |
| 10:00-10:20 | Michael Harrison Lehigh University |
Fibrations of R^3 by lines |
| 10:30-11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00-12:00 | Ciprian Manolescu University of California, Los Angeles |
Talk 2: Seibreg-Witten theory and homology cobordism |
| 12:00-1:30 | Lunch | |
| 1:30-1:50 | Ric Ancel University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
Spaces for which cohomological dimension equals dimension |
| 2:00-2:20 | Matthew Lynam East Central University |
Approximate Inverse Limits and (m,n)-dimensions |
| 2:30-2:50 | Atish Mitra Montana Tech |
Coarse Extension Theory and some C* algebras |
| 3:00-3:20 | Leonard Rubin University of Oklahoma |
Generalized Suspension Theorem in Extension Theory |
| 3:30-4:00 | Break | |
| 4:00-4:20 | Eric Frenden Southern Utah University |
From EDT0L languages to generating functions |
| 4:30-4:50 | Pawel Grzegrzolka University of Tennessee |
Boundaries of spaces |
| 5:00-5:20 | Timothy Schroeder Murray State University |
Right-angled mock reflection surfaces |
| 6:30 – ∞ | Dinner at Ancels’ |
Saturday, June 1, 2019
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00-9:00 | Breakfast EMS E495 | |
| 9:00-9:20 | Linh Truong Columbia University |
An infinite rank summand of the homology cobordism group |
| 9:30-9:50 | Jiawei Zhou University of California, Irvine |
A-infinity minimal models of differential graded algebras |
| 10:00-10:20 | Jacob Pichelmeyer Kansas State University |
Genera of knots in CP2 |
| 10:30-11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00-12:00 | Ciprian Manolescu University of California, Los Angeles |
Talk 3: Involutive Heegaard Floer homology |
| 12:00-12:30 | Problem Session | |
| 12:30-2:00 | Lunch | |
| 2:00-∞ | Outing |