Schedule, Notes/Handouts & Videos

Low Dimensional Topology August 11, 2008 - August 15, 2008

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Aug 11, 2008
Monday

09:00 AM - 09:30 AM

Michael Freedman (Microsoft Research Station Q)

09:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Towards Quantum Characteristic Classes
Michael Freedman (Microsoft Research Station Q)

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Twisted Alexander Polynomials and Fibrations of 3-manifolds
Stefano Vidussi (University of California, Riverside)

01:30 PM - 02:30 PM

4-manifolds, Big and Small
Ronald Stern (University of California, Irvine)

Aug 12, 2008
Tuesday

09:30 AM - 10:40 AM

Knot Homologies via Instanton Counting
Sergei Gukov (California Institute of Technology)

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Projectivization, W-Knots, Kashiwara-Vergne and Alekseev-Torossian
Dror Bar-Natan

01:30 PM - 02:30 PM

Broken Lefschetz fibrations on smooth 4-manifolds
Denis Auroux (University of California, Berkeley)

Aug 13, 2008
Wednesday

09:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Contact structures, Heegaard Floer homology and triangulated categories
Ko Honda

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Unified Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants of rational homology 3-spheres
Anna Beliakova (Universität Zürich)

01:30 PM - 02:30 PM

The origin of the calculus (not Newton's)
Robion Kirby (University of California, Berkeley)

Aug 14, 2008
Thursday

09:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Categorification of quantum groups
Mikhail Khovanov (Columbia University)

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Sutured Floer homology and Seifert surfaces
Andras Juhasz

01:30 PM - 02:30 PM

Heegaard Floer homology
Peter Ozsváth (Princeton University)

Aug 15, 2008
Friday

09:00 AM - 10:00 AM

4-manifolds and the A-B slice problem
Slava Krushkal

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Knot Concordance and Higher-Order Blanchfield Duality
Constance Leidy

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

The Seiberg-Witten equations and dynamics of vector fields in dimension 3
Clifford Taubes (Harvard University)