Schedule, Notes/Handouts & Videos

Connections for Women: Homology Theories of Knots and Links January 21, 2010 - January 22, 2010

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Jan 21, 2010
Thursday

09:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Introduction to knot homology theories and categorification
Eli Grigsby

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Introduction to Floer Theory
Dusa McDuff (Barnard College)

01:30 PM - 02:30 PM

Springer varieties from the topological perspective
Heather Russell

03:00 PM - 04:00 PM

Pseudo-Anosov maps and dilatations
Keiko Kawamuro

04:15 PM - 05:15 PM

The universal sl(2) foam cohomology
Carmen Caprau (California State University, Fresno)

Jan 22, 2010
Friday

09:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Knot and Link Concordance
Shelly Harvey (Rice University)

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Contact Invariants in Floer Homology
Gordana Matic (University of Georgia)

01:30 PM - 02:30 PM

Knots in contact structures and Heegaard Floer homology
Vera Vertesi (Université de Strasbourg)

03:00 PM - 04:00 PM

Combinatorial invariants for Legendrian knots
Joan Licata

04:15 PM - 05:15 PM

Cables of thin knots and bordered Heegaard Floer homology
Ina Petkova

05:00 PM - 05:30 PM

Legendrian Knots and Open Book Decompositions
Sinem Onaran