Low-dimensional manifold and
high-dimensional categories
A conference in honor of
Michael Hartley Freedman
June 6-10, 2011 UC Berkeley
All talks will take place in Stanley 105. Breaks will be in Stanley Hall Atrium.
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Printable PDF version of program
Monday - June 6, 2011 |
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8:45am-9:30am Coffee and Pastries | ||
Time |
Speaker |
Title |
| 9:30am-10:30am | Martin Scharlemann UC Santa Barbara |
Fibered knots and potential counterexamples to the Property 2R and Slice-Ribbon Conjectures |
10:30am-11am Coffee Break | ||
| 11am-12pm | Rob Schneiderman Lehman College CUNY |
Higher-order intersections in low-dimensional topology |
Break for Lunch | ||
| 2pm-3pm | Ron Fintushel Michigan State |
Smooth 4-manifolds: 2011 |
3pm-3:30pm Coffee Break | ||
| 3:30pm-4:30pm | Ko Honda USC |
HF=ECH via open book decompositions |
Break | ||
BBQ at 6:15pm |
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Tuesday - June 7, 2011 |
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8:45am-9:30am Coffee and Pastries | ||
Time |
Speaker |
Title |
| 9:30am-10:30am | Yakov Eliashberg Stanford |
Flexible and rigid Weinstein manifolds |
10:30am-11am Coffee Break | ||
| 11am-12pm | Edward Witten IAS |
Gauge Theory And Khovanov Homology |
Break for Lunch | ||
| 2pm-3pm | Catharina Stroppel Bonn |
Fractional Euler characteristics and completed Grothendieck groups |
3pm-3:30pm Coffee Break | ||
| 3:30pm-4:30pm | Frank Quinn Virginia Tech |
Topology in the mystery dimension |
Break | ||
'Live Band' |
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Wednesday - June 8, 2011 |
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8:45am-9:30am Coffee and Pastries | ||
Time |
Speaker |
Title |
| 9:30am-10:30am | Clifford Taubes Harvard |
The geometry of large curvature |
10:30am-11am Coffee Break | ||
| 11am-12pm | Michael Hutchings UC Berkeley |
Applications of embedded contact homology |
Break for Lunch | ||
| 2pm-3pm | Ben Webster University of Oregon |
Categorification, Lie algebras and topology |
3pm-3:30pm Coffee Break | ||
| 3pm-4:30pm | Yanki Lekili Cambridge |
Fukaya category of the punctured torus |
Break | ||
'Climbing Gym' |
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Thursday - June 9, 2011 |
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8:45am-9:30am Coffee and Pastries | ||
Time |
Speaker |
Title |
| 9:30am-10:30am | Peter Teichner UC Berkeley/MPI Bonn |
Higher categories for low-dimensional topologists |
10:30am-11am Coffee Break | ||
| 11am-12pm | David Gay Iowa |
Low-dimensional Morse 2-functions |
Break for Lunch | ||
| 2pm-3pm | Katrin Wehrheim MIT |
3-dimensional manifolds and symplectic categories |
3pm-3:30pm Coffee Break | ||
| 3:30pm-4:30pm | Scott Morrison UC Berkeley |
Khovanov homology for 4-manifolds. |
Break | ||
'Banquet' |
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Friday - June 10, 2011 |
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8:45am-9:30am Coffee and Pastries | ||
Time |
Speaker |
Title |
| 9:30am-10:30am | Cameron Gordon UT Austin |
Exceptional Dehn filling |
10:30am-11am Coffee Break | ||
| 11am-12pm | Sergei Gukov CalTech |
The homological algebra of knots and BPS states |
Break for Lunch | ||
| 2pm-3pm | Slava Krushkal Virginia |
The A-B slice problem |
3:30pm - 4:30pm Discussion lead by Bob Edwards |
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Any Questions? Comments? Contact: ianagol@math.berkeley.edu