Low-Dimensional Topology and Categorification

Schedule of talks (updated 6/21/10)

All talks will be in Room S-240, in the basement of the math department building.

Abstracts

Are available here (updated 6/21/10).

Sunday, June 20

6 - 7:30 pm: Wine and cheese reception (Math Common room, 4th floor)

Shuttles for the reception will leave hotels (3 Village Inn and Holiday Inn) at 5: 45 pm and return, leaving from the Math Parking Lot, at 7:30 pm.

Monday, June 21

9:00-9:30 Registration. Coffee/Tea/Bagels
9:30-10:30 Mikhail Khovanov, Diagrammatics for categorified quantum groups
10:45-11:45 Charles Livingston, The nonorientable 4-genus of knots
11:45-1:15 Lunch break
1:15-2:15 Jacob Rasmussen, Handle decompositions and exotic S²xS²'s
2:30-3:30 Liam Watson, L-spaces and left-orderability
3:30-4:00 Coffee break

Shuttles will leave hotels (3 Village Inn and Holiday Inn) at 8:30 am (second shuttle at 9 if necessary). In the afternoon, shuttles will pick everyone up at 4:30 pm from the Math Parking Lot to go to the hotels.

Tuesday, June 22

9:00-9:30 Coffee/Tea/Bagels
9:30-10:30 Aaron Lauda, Extended graphical calculus for categorified sl₂
10:45-11:45 Anna Beliakova, A categorification of the Casimir of quantum sl₂ (joint with A. Lauda and M. Khovanov)
11:45-1:15 lunch break
1:15-2:15 Robert Lipshitz, Introduction to bordered Heegaard Floer homology
2:30-3:30 Dylan Thurston, A faithful action of the mapping class group from Heegaard Floer homology
3:30-4:00 Coffee break
4:00-5:00 Tomasz Mrowka, Khovanov homology is an unknot detector
6:30-10:30 Banquet

Shuttles will leave hotels (3 Village Inn and Holiday Inn) at 8:30 am (second shuttle at 9 if necessary). In the afternoon, yellow school buses will pick up from the Student Activity Center Bus Loop between 5:45 - 6:00 pm for the banquet. There will also be shuttles from the Math Parking Lot to the hotels at 5:15 pm for those not going to the banquet.

Wednesday, June 23

9:00-9:30 Coffee/Tea/Bagels
9:30-10:30: Peter Ozsvath, TBA
10:45-11:45 Yi Ni, Dehn surgeries on knots in product manifolds
12:00 -1:00 Scott Morrison, The blob complex
1:00-2:30 Lunch
Free afternoon!

Shuttles will leave hotels (3 Village Inn and Holiday Inn) at 8:30 am (second shuttle at 9 if necessary). In the afternoon, shuttles will pick everyone up at 2:30 pm from the Math Parking Lot for return to the hotels.

Thursday, June 24

9:00-9:30 Coffee/Tea/Bagels
9:30-10:30 Lenhard Ng, Knot contact homology and transverse knots
10:45-11:45 Louis Kauffman, Categorifications of the arrow polynomial for virtual knots
11:45-1:15 Lunch break
1:15-2:15 Eli Grigsby, On Khovanov-Seidel quiver algebras and sutured Khovanov homology
2:30-3:30 Sabin Cautis, D-modules and categorical sl(2) actions
3:30-4:00 Coffee break
4:00-5:00 Joel Kamnitzer, Categorical Lie algebra actions and braid group actions

Shuttles will leave hotels (3 Village Inn and Holiday Inn) at 8:30 am (second shuttle at 9 if necessary). In the afternoon, shuttles will pick everyone up at 5:15 pm from the Math Parking Lot for return to the hotels.

Friday, June 25

9:00-9:30 Coffee/Tea/Bagels
9:30 - 10:00 Vassily Manturov (Internet talk), Parity in Low-Dimensional topology
10:00 - 10:30 Igor Nikonov (Internet talk), Khovanov homology of graph links
11:00-12:00 Matthew Hedden, Recent results in concordance
12:15-1:15 Lev Rozansky, Categorification of the stable SU(2) Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev invariant of links in S² x S¹

Shuttles will leave hotels (3 Village Inn and Holiday Inn) at 8:30 am (second shuttle at 9 if necessary). In the afternoon, shuttles will pick everyone up from the Math Parking Lot at 2:30 pm to go to the hotels.