Princeton University
Department of Mathematics

Symplectic geometry and its interactions with low-dimensional topology
The second Summer 2018 Geometry/Topology RTG mini-conference

June 28-29, 2018

Program

Thursday, June 28, 2018
Time
Speaker
Title
Location
9:00AM-9:30AM
Conference registration/Welcome
Common Room
9:30AM-10:30AM
Lenhard Ng
Conormals and knot invariants
Taplin Auditorium
10:45AM-11:45PM
Roger Casals
Legendrian weaves: flag moduli and flat connections
Taplin Auditorium
11:45AM-1:15PM
Lunch break
1:15PM-2:15PM
Kyler Siegel
Holomorphic curve invariants and quantitative symplectic embedding problems
Taplin Auditorium
2:30PM - 3:30PM
Zach Sylvan
TBA4
Taplin Auditorium
3:30PM-4:00PM
Tea
Common Room
4:00PM-5:00PM
Tomasz Mrowka
Deformations of Instanton Homologies for Knots and Webs
Taplin Auditorium
5:45PM
Walk to Conference Banquet
Ground Floor, Fine Hall
6:00PM-8:00PM
Palmer House
Friday, June 29, 2018
Time
Speaker
Title
Location
9:00AM-9:30AM
Coffee
Common Room
9:30AM - 10:30AM
Ian Zemke

Concordance surgery and the Ozsvath--Szabo 4-manifold invariant
Taplin Auditorium
10:45AM-11:45AM
Jianfeng Lin
On monopole Lefschetz number
Taplin Auditorium
11:45AM - 1:15PM
Lunch break
1:15PM-2:15PM
Oleg Lazarev
Simplifying Weinstein Morse functions
Taplin Auditorium
2:30PM-3:30PM
Jonathan Hanselman
Bordered Floer homology and the Fukaya category of the torus
Taplin Auditorium
3:30PM-4:00PM
Tea
Common Room
4:00PM-5:00PM
Sucharit Sarkar
Khovanov homotopy type
Taplin Auditorium