We are pleased to announce the Simons Workshop “Homological Invariants in Low-dimensional Topology ,” co-organized by Mikhail Khovanov and Peter Oszvath, to be held in Stony Brook from June 13 to June 17, 2011. The workshop will be conducted by the new Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University, whose mission is to develop the interaction of geometry, in the broadest sense, with theoretical physics.
“Homological invariants in low-dimensional topology” workshop at the Simons Center will be devoted to the rapidly growing subject of knot and 3-manifold homology theories. In the past few years it has become a rich and unifying area with immediate connections to mathematical physics and gauge theory, symplectic and contact topology, homological algebra and DG categories, and classical and geometric representation theory. We anticipate about twenty speakers each giving a one-hour lecture, broadly covering many of the recent developments in the subject.
Location: Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Lecture Hall, Rm 102
Organizers: Peter Ozsvath & Mikhail Khovanov
Participants
John Baldwin
Ben Cooper
David Duncan
Allison Gilmore
Josh Greene
Sergei Gukov
Matt Hedden
Matt Hogancamp
Jen Hom
Thomas Jaeger
Anton Kapustin
Peter Kronheimer
Cagatay Kutluhan
Aaron Lauda
Yanki Lekili
Adam Levine
Robert Lipshitz
Tom Mrowka
Yi Ni
Alexei Oblomkov
Tim Perutz
Krzysztof Putyra
Jake Rasmussen
Lev Rozansky
Sucharit Sarkar
Radmila Sazdanovic
Alexander Shumakovitch
Marko Stosic
Joshua Sussan
Zoltan Szabo
Dylan Thurston
Pedro Vaz
Oleg Viro
Stephan Wehrli
Hao Wu
Zhongtao Wu
A tentative schedule can be found below. All talks will take place in the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Lecture Hall, Room 102
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8:30 – 9:30 | Breakfast: SCGP Cafe | Breakfast: SCGP Cafe | Breakfast: SCGP Cafe | Breakfast: SCGP Cafe | Breakfast: SCGP Cafe |
9:30 – 10:30 | A. Oblomkov: ”
Khovanov-Rozansky homology and Hilbert scheme of points on singular curve” [video] |
S. Gukov: “Walls, knots, and partitions : colored and 3D” [video] |
Y. Lekili [video] |
R. Lipshitz: “Bordered Heegaard Floer homology and the branched double cover.” [video] |
S. Sarkar [video] |
10:45 – 11:45 | J. Rasmussen [video] |
Z. Szabo [video] |
J. Greene: “Conway Mutations and Alternating Links” [video] |
P Kronheimer: Rasmussen’s s-invariant does not detect homotopy 4-balls. [video] |
M. Hedden [video] |
12:00 – 1:15 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
1:15 – 2:15 | A. Gilmore: Knot Floer homology and Soergel Bimodules [video] |
J. Baldwin: “A combinatorial spanning tree model for knot Floer homology” | T. Mrowka: Filtrations on Instanton Knot Homology. [video] |
A. Levine: “Bordered Floer homology and splicing knot complements” [video] |
M. Stosic: “Indecomposables in the Khovanov-Lauda’s categories, canonical bases and categorical braid action”
[video] |
2:30 – 3:30 | H. Wu: “Colored sl(N) link homology via matrix factorizations” [video] |
M. Hogancamp: “Properties of Categorified Spin Networks” [video] |
S. Wehrli: “Khovanov-Seidel quiver algebras and bordered Floer homology” [video] |
P. Vaz: “Categorified q-Schur algebra and coloured HOMFLYPT homology” [video] |
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3:30 – 4:00 | Tea | Tea | Tea | Tea | Tea |