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 will be open soon
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:
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.
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:
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).
School: 2 - 6 June 2025
Conference: 9 - 13 June 2025
School: 2 - 6 June 2025
Conference: 9 - 13 June 2025
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.
Deadline for applicants in person requesting financial and/or visa support is 1 March 2025; deadline for other applicants is 1 May 2025.
**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)
