London Mathematical Society Durham Symposium
Pseudoholomorphic Curves and Gauge Theory in Low-dimensional Topology
2019-08-18 to 2019-08-24

Schedule of Talks
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Aug 19 (Mon)

07:30 - 08:45 Breakfast at Hatfield College (hot food from 8:00)

09:00 - 09:30 Introduction/Registration

09:30 - 10:20 Andras Stipsicz: Concordance invariants from covering involutions

10:20 - 10:50 Coffee break

10:50 - 11:50 Lightning Session

10:50 - 11:05 Paolo Aceto: Rational cobordisms and integral homology

11:05 - 11:20 Agnese Barbensi: Double branched cover of knotoids and applications to proteins

11:20 - 11:35 Saso Strle: Disoriented homology of surfaces and branched covers

11:35 - 11:50 Daniel Waite: Bordered Knot Floer Homology and Three Strand Pretzel Knots

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:50 - 14:40 Maggie Miller: Dehn surgery on links and the Thurston norm

14:50 - 15:40 Arunima Ray: Yet another proof that Alexander polynomial one knots are topologically slice

15:40 - 16:10 Coffee break

16:10 - 17:00 Jacob Rasmussen: An SL_2(R) Lin invariant

18:00 - 19:00 Wine reception at Hatfield College

19:00 - 20:00 Dinner at Hatfield College

Aug 20 (Tue)

07:30 - 08:45 Breakfast at Hatfield College (hot food from 8:00)

09:00 - 09:50 Lisa Piccirillo: Exotic Mazur manifolds and property R

10:00 - 10:50 Peter Lambert-Cole: Basic classes for trisected 4-manifolds

10:50 - 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 - 12:20 Allison Miller: The topological 4-genus of satellite knots

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:20 - 15:10 Nathan Dowlin: Relationships between Khovanov and knot Floer homology

15:10 - 15:40 Coffee break

15:40 - 16:30 Paolo Ghiggini: Knot Floer homology from a dynamical viewpoint

19:00 - 20:00 Dinner at Hatfield College

Aug 21 (Wed)

07:30 - 08:45 Breakfast at Hatfield College (hot food from 8:00)

09:00 - 09:50 Andras Juhasz: Knot cobordisms, bridge index, and torsion in knot Floer homology

10:00 - 10:50 Olga Plamenevskaya: Links of singularities: symplectic vs algebraic fillings

10:50 - 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 - 12:30 Lightning Session

11:30 - 11:45 Daniele Celoria: The rational Berge problem

11:45 - 12:00 Jonathan Evans: A Lagrangian torus fibration for the negative vertex

12:00 - 12:15 Tom Hockenhull: Koszul duality and Knot Floer homology

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 14:15 Conference Photo

14:30 - 16:00 Cathedral visit (meet at Hatfield College)

19:00 - 20:00 Dinner at Hatfield College

Aug 22 (Thu)

07:30 - 08:45 Breakfast at Hatfield College (hot food from 8:00)

09:00 - 09:50 Ivan Smith: Symplectic annular Khovanov homology

10:00 - 10:50 Mohammed Abouzaid: An application of Floer homotopy

10:50 - 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 - 12:20 Emmy Murphy: Arboreal singularities from the Legendrian perspective

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:20 - 15:10 Francesco Lin: Indefinite Stein fillings and Pin(2)-monopole Floer homology

15:10 - 15:40 Coffee break

15:40 - 16:30 Tom Mrowka: Bar Natan in the wild

19:00 - 20:00 Conference Dinner at Great Hall, University College

Aug 23 (Fri)

07:30 - 08:45 Breakfast at Hatfield College (hot food from 8:00)

09:00 - 09:50 Jeremy Van Horn-Morris: Spectral order of contact 3-manifolds

10:00 - 10:50 Vera Vertesi: Additivity of support norm under connected sum

10:50 - 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 - 12:20 Steven Sivek: Instantons and L-space surgeries

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:20 - 15:10 Duncan McCoy: Characterizing slopes for hyperbolic and torus knots

15:10 - 15:40 Coffee break

15:40 - 16:30 Juanita Pinzon Caicedo: Instanton and Heegaard Floer homologies of surgeries on torus knots

19:00 - 20:00 Dinner at Hatfield College