Home

Program of Conference on 4-manifolds and knot concordance

For the abstracts click on the titles or see the list of abstracts.

Mon, 17 Oct 2016

09:30 - 10:30
MPIM Lecture Hall
Jae Choon Cha
4-dimensional $L^2$-acyclic bordism and Whitney towers
10:30 - 11:00
MPIM Tea Room
Tea Break
11:00 - 12:00
MPIM Lecture Hall
Rob Schneiderman
Whitney towers: What are they? And what are they good for?
13:30 - 14:30
MPIM Lecture Hall
Jennifer Hom
Knot concordance in homology spheres
14:45 - 15:15
MPIM Lecture Hall
Kyle Larson
Embedding of 3-manifolds in spin 4-manifolds
15:30 - 16:00
MPIM Lecture Hall
Tetsuya Abe
The slice- ribbon conjecture and related topics.
16:00 - 16:30
MPIM Tea Room
Tea Break
16:30 - 17:00
MPIM Lecture Hall
Andrew Ranicki
The mod 8 signature of a surface bundle

Tue, 18 Oct 2016

09:30 - 10:30
MPIM Lecture Hall
Brendan Owens
Searching for slice alternating knots
10:30 - 11:00
MPIM Tea Room
Tea Break
11:00 - 12:00
MPIM Lecture Hall
David Gay
Functions on surfaces and constructions of 3-, 4- and 5-manifolds
13:30 - 14:30
MPIM Lecture Hall
Robert Gompf
Group actions on exotic smoothings of $\mathbb{R}^4$
14:45 - 15:15
MPIM Lecture Hall
Taylor Martin
Lower order quotients in the $n$-solvable filtration
15:30 - 16:00
MPIM Lecture Hall
Biji Wong
Equivariant corks and Heegaard Floer homology
16:00 - 16:30
MPIM Tea Room
Tea Break
16:30 - 18:30
MPIM Lecture Hall
Problem Session

Wed, 19 Oct 2016

09:30 - 10:30
MPIM Lecture Hall
Daniel Ruberman
Invariants of 4-manifolds with the homology of $S^1\times S^3$
10:30 - 11:00
MPIM Tea Room
Tea Break
11:00 - 11:30
MPIM Lecture Hall
Boris Lishak
Geometric complexity of 4-manifolds
11:45 - 12:15
MPIM Lecture Hall
Juanita Pinzo-Caicedo
Iterated Whitehead doubles are independent
12:30 - 13:00
MPIM Lecture Hall
Kyungbae Park
An infinite-rank summand of knots with trivial Alexander polynomial
14:00 - 19:00
Excursion

Thu, 20 Oct 2016

09:30 - 10:30
MPIM Lecture Hall
Adam Levine
Heegaard Floer invariants for homology $S^1 \times S^3$s
10:30 - 11:00
MPIM Tea Room
Tea Break
11:00 - 12:00
MPIM Lecture Hall
Matthew Hedden
Knot theory and complex curves in subcritical Stein domains
13:30 - 14:30
MPIM Lecture Hall
Shelly Harvey
A rational valued metric on the knot concordance group coming from gropes
14:45 - 15:15
MPIM Lecture Hall
Marco Golla
Heegaard Floer homology and cobordisms of algebraic knots
15:30 - 16:00
MPIM Lecture Hall
Ana Lecuona
Slopes, colored links and Kojima's $\eta$ concordance invariant
16:00 - 16:30
MPIM Tea Room
Tea Break
16:30 - 17:00
MPIM Lecture Hall
Motoo Tange
Cork twist and infinite exotic families

Fri, 21 Oct 2016

09:30 - 10:30
MPIM Lecture Hall
Inanc Baykur
Small symplectic and exotic 4-manifolds via positive factorizations
10:30 - 11:00
MPIM Tea Room
Tea Break
11:00 - 12:00
MPIM Lecture Hall
David Gabai
On Mazur's telescoping argument
13:30 - 14:30
MPIM Lecture Hall
Alexandra Kjuchukova
Linking numbers of pseudo-branch curves
14:15 - 14:45
MPIM Lecture Hall
Marc Kegel
The knot complement problem for Legendrian and transverse knots
15:00 - 15:30
MPIM Tea Room
Tea Break

 

... back to parent event

LaTeX version

© MPI f. Mathematik, Bonn Impressum & Datenschutz
-A A +A