Workshop on Flavours of Gauge Theory

Rubermania! On the Occasion of Daniel Ruberman's 61st birthday

May 6 - 8, 2016, The Fields Institute

Location: Fields Institute, Room 230

Overview

Gauge theory has been a very active area of mathematics over the past thirty years. This time period has seen the development of Donaldson gauge theory, Seiberg-Witten gauge theory, and Ozsváth-Szabó's Heegaard-Floer homology. In addition to new invariants, many new ways to construct smooth 4-manifolds are being explored. These include cork twists, monodromy replacements, and trisections. This is a three-day workshop at the Fields Institute on the interaction of the different flavours of gauge theory.

The workshop will coincide with the occasion of Daniel Ruberman's 61st birthday.

Registration Instruction:

The registration fee includes meeting materials and the costs associated with daily morning and afternoon refreshment breaks, and a reception on the evening of Friday, May 6, 2016. A green "Register Online" link is available in the column to the right near the top of the page.

Cancellation note: there is a $15 charge for cancellations to cover administrative costs

Schedule

Friday, May 6th, 2016
15:00 to 15:30	Tea Time
15:30 to 16:15	Khovanov homology and knot Floer homology for pointed links Adam Levine, Princeton University
16:20 to 17:05	Small symplectic and exotic 4 - manifolds via positive factorizations R. Inanc Baykur
17:10 to 17:55	Periodic eta-invariants Nikolai Saveliev, University of Miami
18:00 to 20:00	Wine and Cheese

Saturday, May 7th, 2016
09:00 to 09:45	On the Thom conjecture in CP^3 Saso Strle, University of Ljubljana
09:45 to 10:15	Tea Time
10:15 to 11:00	Surgery obstructions and Heegaa rd Floer homology Jen Hom
11:15 to 12:00	Knot theory and complex curves in subcritical Stein domains Matthew Hedden, Michigan State University
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch
14:00 to 14:45	Involutive Heegaard Floer homology Kristen Hendricks, UCLA
14:45 to 15:15	Tea Time
15:15 to 16:00	Homology cobordism invariants from Floer theory Ciprian Manolescu, University of California, Los Angeles
16:15 to 17:00	Knotted spheres, corks and equivariant cobordism David Auckly, Kansas State University
17:45 to 20:30	Banquet

Sunday, May 8th, 2016
09:00 to 09:45	Positive-definite symplectic four-manifolds Tye Lidman, IAS
09:45 to 10:15	Tea Time
10:15 to 11:00	The four-color theorem and an instanton invariant for spatial graphs Tom Mrowka, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11:15 to 12:00	Traceless SU(2) character varieties of tangles and punctured spheres Paul Kirk, Indiana University

Speakers

David Auckly, KSU
R. İnanç Baykur, Massachusetts Amherst
Matt Hedden, MSU
Kristen Hendricks, UCLA
Jen Hom, Georgia Tech
Paul Kirk, Indiana
Adam Levine, Princeton
Tye Lidman, IAS
Ciprian Manolescu, UCLA
Tom Mrowka, MIT
Nikolai Saveliev, Miami
Sašo Strle, Ljubljana

With special commentary by
Ron Stern, UC Irvine

Banquet

Banquet Information for Dinner Ticket Purchasers

Restaurant: SideCar
Time/Date: 5:45 pm / Saturday, May 7th, 2016
Location: Sidecar, 577 College Street, Toronto, ON M6G 1B2
Directions: Upon exiting the front entrance of the Fields Institute, walk West on College St. for 15 minutes and the SideCar restaurant will be on your left-hand side after crossing Manning Avenue.
Map: To view the walking route from the Fields Institute to the SideCar restuarant, please click here.

Registered Participants

Name	Affiliation
Nima Anvari	University of Miami
David Auckly	Kansas State University
Inanc Baykur	UMass Amherst
Hans Boden	McMaster University
David Duncan	McMaster University
Mariano Echeverria	University of Virginia
Ronald Fintushel	Michigan State University
Chris Hays	University of Kentucky
Matthew Hedden	Michigan State University
Kristen Hendricks	University of California, Los Angeles
Chris Herald	University of Nevada, Reno
Alyson Hildum	Wesleyan University
Michael Hill	Kansas State University
Jennifer Hom	Georgia Tech
Henry Horton	Indiana University
Homayun Karimi	McMaster University
HEE JUNG KIM	Seoul National University
Paul Kirk	Indiana University
McKee Krumpak	Brandeis Universeity
Adam Levine	Princeton University
Tye Lidman	Institute for Advanced Study
Ciprian Manolescu	University of California, Los Angeles
Jake Marcinek	Harvard University
Paul Melvin	Bryn Mawr College
Mike Miller	University of California, Los Angeles
Tom Mrowka	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Akos Nagy	Mathematics
Arunima Ray	Brandeis University
Daniel Ruberman	Brandeis University
Nikolai Saveliev	University of Miami
Christopher Scaduto	Brandeis University
Hannah Schwartz	Bryn Mawr College
Ronald Stern	UC Irvine
Matthew Stoffregen	University of California, Los Angeles
Saso Strle	University of Ljubljana
Piotr Suwara	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Luke Williams	Kansas State University
Biji Wong	Brandeis University

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Rubermania! On the Occasion of Daniel Ruberman's 61st birthday

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