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Schedule for: 22w5164 - Interactions of gauge theory with contact and symplectic topology in dimensions 3 and 4

Beginning on Sunday, March 6 and ending Friday March 11, 2022

All times in Banff, Alberta time, MST (UTC-7).

Sunday, March 6
16:00 - 17:30 Check-in begins at 16:00 on Sunday and is open 24 hours (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Kinnear Center 105)
20:00 - 22:00 Informal gathering (TCPL Foyer)
Monday, March 7
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast (Kinnear Center 105)
08:45 - 09:00 Introduction and Welcome by BIRS Staff (TCPL 201)
09:00 - 09:50 Matthew Hedden: On Murasugi sum and knot Floer homology (Online)
09:50 - 10:20 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:20 - 11:10 Roger Casals: Legendrian knots & Cluster algebras (Online)
11:30 - 13:30 Lunch (Kinnear Center 105)
14:00 - 14:20 Group Photo (TCPL Foyer)
14:30 - 15:20 Ian Zemke: Bordered perspectives on the Manolescu-Ozsvath link surgery formula (TCPL 201)
15:20 - 15:50 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:50 - 16:40 Sherry Gong: An A-infinity category from instantons (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Kinnear Center 105)
Tuesday, March 8
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Kinnear Center 105)
09:00 - 09:50 Bob Gompf: Transverse tori in Engel manifolds (Online)
09:50 - 10:20 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:20 - 11:10 Jake Rasmussen: Knot Floer homology of knots in the solid torus (Online)
11:15 - 11:20 Virtual Group Photo (Online)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch (Kinnear Center 105)
13:00 - 14:00 Guided Tour of The Banff Centre (PDC Front Desk)
14:30 - 15:20 Joshua Wang: Colored sl(N) homology, SU(N) representations, and the Hopf link (TCPL 201)
15:20 - 15:50 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:50 - 16:40 John Baldwin: Fixed points and Khovanov homology (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Kinnear Center 105)
Wednesday, March 9
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Kinnear Center 105)
09:00 - 09:50 Maggie Miller: Knotted handlebodies (Online)
09:50 - 10:20 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:20 - 11:10 Irving Dai: Equivariant knots and knot Floer homology (TCPL 201)
11:20 - 12:10 Matt Stoffregen: A surgery exact triangle for involutive Heegaard Floer homology (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:30 Lunch (Kinnear Center 105)
13:30 - 17:30 Free Afternoon (Banff National Park)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Kinnear Center 105)
Thursday, March 10
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Kinnear Center 105)
09:00 - 09:50 Juanita Pinzon-Caicedo: Satellite operations that are not homomorphisms (Online)
09:50 - 10:20 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:20 - 11:10 Bulent Tosun: On embedding problems for 3-manifolds in 4-space (Online)
11:30 - 13:30 Lunch (Kinnear Center 105)
14:30 - 15:20 Wenzhao Chen: Knot Floer homology of satellite knots and immersed curves (TCPL 201)
15:20 - 15:50 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:50 - 16:40 Keegan Boyle: A lower bound on the equivariant unknotting number for strongly negative amphichiral knots (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Kinnear Centre 105)
Friday, March 11
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Kinnear Center 105)
09:00 - 09:50 Katherine Raoux: 4-dimensional aspects of tight contact 3-manifolds (Online)
09:50 - 10:20 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:20 - 10:29 Ryan Budney: Proof of a conjecture of Tom Farrell  (TCPL 201))
10:30 - 11:00 Checkout by 11AM (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch from 11:30 to 13:30 (Kinnear Center 105)