Starts 2 Jun 2025
Ends 13 Jun 2025
Central European Time
Summer School on Modern Tools in Low-Dimensional Topology; Conference on Modern Developments in Low-Dimensional Topology | (smr 4074)
ICTP
Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)
Adriatico Guest House Riva Massimiliano e Carlotta, Grignano I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)
The call for applications is open, please click on "Apply here" on the left, in order to submit your application
1. Skein lasagna modules (by Mike Willis and Melissa Zhang)
2. Real Seiberg-Witten theory (by Hokuto Konno and Ian Montague)
3. Kontsevich invariants from configuration spaces (by Jianfeng Lin and Danica Kosanovic)
4. Lefschetz fibrations and closed exotic 4-manifolds (by Andras Stipsicz and Zoltan Szabo)
Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.
Summer school: 2 - 6 June 2025
Conference: 9 - 13 June 2025
The summer school is aimed at graduate students in low-dimensional topology. The goal is to make students familiar with the novel techniques in the field that have led to recent advances in our understanding of four-dimensional manifolds.
The program will consist of four mini-courses of 5 lectures each, all accompanied by discussion sessions:
2. Real Seiberg-Witten theory (by Hokuto Konno and Ian Montague)
3. Kontsevich invariants from configuration spaces (by Jianfeng Lin and Danica Kosanovic)
4. Lefschetz fibrations and closed exotic 4-manifolds (by Andras Stipsicz and Zoltan Szabo)
The conference will consist of several research talks on topics of current interest in low dimensional topology, including four-manifolds, knot invariants, categorification, gauge theory, and connections to physics.
Confirmed conference speakers:
Mina Aganagić, UC Berkeley
Aleksei Andreev, U. Zurich
Mina Aganagić, UC Berkeley
Aleksei Andreev, U. Zurich
William Ballinger, Harvard
Inanc Baykur, U Mass Amherst
Inanc Baykur, U Mass Amherst
Valentina Bias, SISSA Trieste
Eugene Gorsky, UC Davis
Matthew Hogancamp, Northeastern
Sungkyung Kang, Oxford
Marc Lackenby, Oxford
Jiakai Li, Harvard
Cristina Palmer-Anghel, U. Leeds
Qianhe Qin, Stanford
Qiuyu Ren, UC Berkeley
Alexander Schmidhuber, MIT
Masaki Taniguchi, Kyoto University
Alexander Schmidhuber, MIT
Masaki Taniguchi, Kyoto University
Laura Wakelin, King's College
Paul Wedrich, U. Hamburg
Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.
DEADLINES: 01/03/2025 (for funding); 01/05/2025 (no funding).
**DEADLINE: 01/05/2025**
Organizers
Anna Beliakova (University of Zurich), Sergei Gukov (DIAS, Ireland and Caltech), Peter Kronheimer (Harvard University), Aaron Lauda (USC), Ciprian Manolescu (Stanford University), Lisa Marie Piccirillo (University of Texas), Local Organiser: Pavel Putrov (ICTP)
