1st Canadian Geometry and Topology Seminar

March 14 - 16, 2018, The Fields Institute

Location: Fields Institute, Room 230

Description

We hope to establish this seminar as an annual series of informal meetings, which are national in scope and will rotate across the country. The aim is to showcase the work of Canadian researchers in geometry and topology, and to provide networking opportunities for researchers in geometry and topology.

Schedule

Wednesday, March 14th, 2018
14:30 to 15:30	Free Finite Group Actions on Rational Homology 3-spheres Alejandro Adem, University of British Columbia
15:30 to 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 to 17:00	Minimal two-spheres in three-spheres Robert Haslhofer, University of Toronto

Thursday, March 15th, 2018
09:15 to 10:15	Constructions of compact torsion-free $G_2$-manifolds Spiro Karigiannis, University of Waterloo
10:15 to 10:45	Coffee break
10:45 to 11:45	Around the L-space conjecture Liam Watson, Université de Sherbrooke
11:45 to 14:00	Lunch
14:00 to 15:00	Multiple Mirrors and Derived Categories David Favero, University of Alberta
15:00 to 15:30	Coffee break
15:30 to 16:30	Deforming foliations in branched covers and the L-space conjecture Steve Boyer, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM)
16:30 to 17:30	The cohomology of abelian Hessenberg varieties and the Stanley-Stembridge conjecture Megumi Harada, McMaster University
17:30 to 19:00	Reception

Friday, March 16th, 2018
09:30 to 10:30	The Linearization Conjecture
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 to 12:00	The geometry of extremal eigenvalue problems Ailana Fraser, University of British Columbia
12:00 to 13:00	Geometric structures, foliations, and topological rigidity Kathryn Mann, Brown University

Invited Speakers

Name	Affiliation
Vestislav Apostolov	Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM)
Agnès Beaudry	University of Colorado Boulder
David Favero	University of Alberta
Ailana Fraser	University of British Columbia
Megumi Harada	McMaster University
Robert Haslhofer	University of Toronto
Spiro Karigiannis	University of Waterloo
Kathryn Mann	Brown University
Eduardo Martinez Pedroza	Memorial University
Liam Watson	Université de Sherbrooke

Registered Participants

Name	Affiliation
Alejandro Adem	University of British Columbia
Vestislav Apostolov	Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM)
Anthony Bahri	Rider University
Michael Bailey	University of Waterloo
Thomas Baird	Memorial University
Agnès Beaudry	University of Colorado Boulder
Steve Boyer	Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM)
Adam Clay	University of Manitoba
David Favero	University of Alberta
Ailana Fraser	University of British Columbia
Tyrone Ghaswala	University of Manitoba
Montek Gill	University of Michigan
Ian Hambleton	The Fields Institute
Mark Hamilton	Mount Allison University
Megumi Harada	McMaster University
Robert Haslhofer	University of Toronto
Rick Jardine	Western University
Lisa Jeffrey	University of Toronto
André Joyal	Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM)
Spiro Karigiannis	University of Waterloo
Peng Lu	University of Oregon
Kathryn Mann	Brown University
Adnan Manzoor	MDH University, Sweden
Eduardo Martinez Pedroza	Memorial University
Matthias Nagel	McMaster University
Patrick Naylor	University of Waterloo
Cihan Okay	University of British Columbia
Erik Pedersen	University of Copenhagen
Kate Poirier	City University of New York - New York City College of Technology
Paul Rapoport	University of Illinois at Chicago
Krishanu Sankar	University of British Columbia
Paul Selick	University of Toronto
Daniel Sheinbaum	University of British Columbia
Paul Arnaud Songhafouo Tsopméné	University of Regina
Marc Stephan	University of British Columbia
Laurence Taylor	University of Notre Dame
McKenzie Wang	McMaster University
Liam Watson	Université de Sherbrooke
Claudius Zibrowius	Université de Sherbrooke