The Emmy Noether Mathematical Institute, Bar-Ilan University:
Surfaces in low dimensional manifolds
Schedule and abstracts:
Sunday:
16:00-17:00 Frank Lutz Periodic foams, polyhedral surfaces and knotted polyhedral tori
17:30-18:30 Joel Hass The k-width of curves and surfaces
Monday:
9:00-10:00 Peter Shalen Singular surfaces in 3-manifolds and hyperbolic volume
10:30-11:30 Slava Krushkal Topological arbiters
12:00-13:00 Jeremy Kaminski Algebraic curves in multiple-view geometry
LUNCH
14:30-15:30 Tali Pinski Dynamics of shear homeomorphisms of tori
16:00-17:00 Ulrich Koschorke Nielsen fixed point and coincidence theory -- surfaces and beyond.
Tuesday:
9:00-10:00 Thomas Banchoff Local Normal Degrees and Three-Critical-Point Embeddings of Polyhedral Surfaces and Three-Manifolds
10:30-11:30 Ian Agol The minimal volume orientable 2-cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds
12:00-13:00 Meirav Amram On the fundamental group of real conic-line arrangements
LUNCH
14:30-15:30 Ryan Derby-Talbot Heegaard splittings, incompressible surfaces and the stabilization problem
16:00-17:00 Tahl Nowik Immersions of surfaces into aspherical 3-manifolds
Wednesday:
9:00-10:00 Will Kazez Automorphisms of surfaces and contact structures on 3-manifolds
10:30-11:30 Yoav Moriah (g,b)-decompositions of knots in S^3
12:00-13:00 Matthias Kreck A new homology theory and related questions
concerning complex algebraic curves
LUNCH
15:00 BOAT CRUISE
Thursday:
8:30-9:30 Volker Puppe Involutions on 3-Manifolds and Self-dual Binary Codes
10:00-11:00 Michael Polyak Finite Type Invariants of Immersions and Enumerative Geometry
