Geometric Topology

Organizers: Corey Bregman and Beibei Liu

Schedule

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March 11

10:20AM – 12:00PM

GeoTop Session #1 in Heritage Hall Building 126

10:20AM – 10:50AM

GeoTop Session #1.1 in Heritage Hall Building 126

Brackets of disk bundles and configuration space integrals — Robin Koytcheff

10:55AM – 11:25AM

GeoTop Session #1.2 in Heritage Hall Building 126

Unknotting number and L-space satellite operators — Hugo Zhou

11:30AM – 12:00PM

GeoTop Session #1.3 in Heritage Hall Building 126

Surgeries on knots and tight contact structures — Shunyu Wan

11:35AM – 11:55AM

GeoTop Session #1.4 in Heritage Hall Building 126

10:20AM – 10:50AM

GeoTop Session #1.1 in Heritage Hall Building 126

Brackets of disk bundles and configuration space integrals — Robin Koytcheff

10:55AM – 11:25AM

GeoTop Session #1.2 in Heritage Hall Building 126

Unknotting number and L-space satellite operators — Hugo Zhou

11:30AM – 12:00PM

GeoTop Session #1.3 in Heritage Hall Building 126

Surgeries on knots and tight contact structures — Shunyu Wan

11:35AM – 11:55AM

GeoTop Session #1.4 in Heritage Hall Building 126

02:40PM – 03:25PM

Plenaries

Semi-Plenary Session #2.2 in Heritage Hall Building 106

Exotic aspherical 4-manifolds — Kyle Hayden

03:40PM – 05:20PM

GeoTop Session #2 in Heritage Hall Building 126

03:40PM – 04:10PM

GeoTop Session #2.1 in Heritage Hall Building 126

Universal coefficients and Novikov homology — Kevin Schreve

04:15PM – 04:45PM

GeoTop Session #2.2 in Heritage Hall Building 126

Immersed incompressible surfaces in hyperbolic manifolds — Zhenghao Rao

04:50PM – 05:20PM

GeoTop Session #2.3 in Heritage Hall Building 126

Morse theory on moduli of curves — Changjie Chen

03:40PM – 04:10PM

GeoTop Session #2.1 in Heritage Hall Building 126

Universal coefficients and Novikov homology — Kevin Schreve

04:15PM – 04:45PM

GeoTop Session #2.2 in Heritage Hall Building 126

Immersed incompressible surfaces in hyperbolic manifolds — Zhenghao Rao

04:50PM – 05:20PM

GeoTop Session #2.3 in Heritage Hall Building 126

Morse theory on moduli of curves — Changjie Chen

March 12

09:25AM – 10:10AM

Plenaries

Semi-Plenary Session #3.1 in Heritage Hall Building 102

Nielsen realization problems in the Zimmer program — Bena Tshishiku

10:20AM – 12:00PM

GeoTop Session #3 in Heritage Hall Building 126

10:20AM – 10:50AM

GeoTop Session #3.1 in Heritage Hall Building 126

The existence of taut foliations with zero Euler class — Ying Hu

10:55AM – 11:25AM

GeoTop Session #3.2 in Heritage Hall Building 126

Infinitely many Lefschetz pencils on ruled surfaces — Seraphina Eun Bi Lee

11:30AM – 12:00PM

GeoTop Session #3.3 in Heritage Hall Building 126

Isotopy versus Equivariant Isotopy — Trent Lucas

10:20AM – 10:50AM

GeoTop Session #3.1 in Heritage Hall Building 126

The existence of taut foliations with zero Euler class — Ying Hu

10:55AM – 11:25AM

GeoTop Session #3.2 in Heritage Hall Building 126

Infinitely many Lefschetz pencils on ruled surfaces — Seraphina Eun Bi Lee

11:30AM – 12:00PM

GeoTop Session #3.3 in Heritage Hall Building 126

Isotopy versus Equivariant Isotopy — Trent Lucas

03:40PM – 05:20PM

GeoTop Session #4 in Heritage Hall Building 126

03:40PM – 04:05PM

GeoTop Session #4.1 in Heritage Hall Building 126

Root lattices and series valued invariants of plumbed 3-manifolds — Allison Moore, with Nicola Tarasca

04:05PM – 04:30PM

GeoTop Session #4.2 in Heritage Hall Building 126

Negatively Curved Einstein Metrics — Barry Minemyer

04:30PM – 04:55PM

GeoTop Session #4.3 in Heritage Hall Building 126

Cohomology of Handlebody Torelli Groups — Annie Holden

04:55PM – 05:20PM

GeoTop Session #4.4 in Heritage Hall Building 126

Monodromy of curves in a simply connected surface (joint with Nick Salter) — Ishan Banerjee

03:40PM – 04:05PM

GeoTop Session #4.1 in Heritage Hall Building 126

Root lattices and series valued invariants of plumbed 3-manifolds — Allison Moore, with Nicola Tarasca

04:05PM – 04:30PM

GeoTop Session #4.2 in Heritage Hall Building 126

Negatively Curved Einstein Metrics — Barry Minemyer

04:30PM – 04:55PM

GeoTop Session #4.3 in Heritage Hall Building 126

Cohomology of Handlebody Torelli Groups — Annie Holden

04:55PM – 05:20PM

GeoTop Session #4.4 in Heritage Hall Building 126

Monodromy of curves in a simply connected surface (joint with Nick Salter) — Ishan Banerjee

March 13

10:20AM – 11:10AM

GeoTop Session #5 in Heritage Hall Building 126

10:20AM – 10:50AM

GeoTop Session #5.1 in Heritage Hall Building 126

Mapping class groups and Freudenthal compactifications of infinite type surfaces — Jeremy Brazas, with Jesus H. Hernandez, Curtis Kent

10:45AM – 11:10AM

GeoTop Session #5.2 in Heritage Hall Building 126

Pseudo-isotopy versus isotopy for homeomorphisms of 4-manifolds — Daniel Galvin

10:20AM – 10:50AM

GeoTop Session #5.1 in Heritage Hall Building 126

Mapping class groups and Freudenthal compactifications of infinite type surfaces — Jeremy Brazas, with Jesus H. Hernandez, Curtis Kent

10:45AM – 11:10AM

GeoTop Session #5.2 in Heritage Hall Building 126

Pseudo-isotopy versus isotopy for homeomorphisms of 4-manifolds — Daniel Galvin

01:30PM – 02:30PM

Plenaries

Plenary Session #7 in Heritage Hall Building 102

Hyperbolic manifolds: Past, present, future — Matthew Stover

03:40PM – 05:20PM

GeoTop Session #6 in Heritage Hall Building 126

03:40PM – 04:10PM

GeoTop Session #6.1 in Heritage Hall Building 126

Gromov’s Conjecture for Graph Product of Groups — Satyanath Howladar

04:15PM – 04:45PM

GeoTop Session #6.2 in Heritage Hall Building 126

Some fibrations of some pseudomanifold groups — Genevieve Walsh

03:40PM – 04:10PM

GeoTop Session #6.1 in Heritage Hall Building 126

Gromov’s Conjecture for Graph Product of Groups — Satyanath Howladar

04:15PM – 04:45PM

GeoTop Session #6.2 in Heritage Hall Building 126

Some fibrations of some pseudomanifold groups — Genevieve Walsh