ECSTATIC 2 (Early Career Stage Topologists AT Imperial College)
Invited speakers:
András Juhász (University of Oxford)
Sarah Whitehouse (University of Sheffield)
ECSTATIC is a two-day conference at Imperial College, aimed at young researchers (Ph.D. students and postdocs) working in or interested in all forms of topology. All participants are encouraged to present their own research or the field they are working on by giving a talk.
Dates: 13th-14th June
Venue: Imperial College London, South Kensington campus, Sherfield building, Read Lecture Theatre (5th Floor).
You can find all details for the conference on ECSTATIC's informal webpage
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If you need to post your receipts, please send them to:
Marco Marengon
Department of Mathematics
Imperial College London
Room 6M52, Level 6M, Huxley Building
180 Queen's Gate
London – SW7 2AZ
Registration for the conference is now closed.
If you would like to attend the conference but you did not register, please contact the organisers (see section Contacts below).
Talks are to be 25 minutes long for Ph.D. students and 40 minutes for postdocs.
Please bear in mind that although topologists, attendees will be working in different branches of the field. As such, talks should aim to be understandable on an overview level for non-specialists.
The lecture theatre is equipped with a projector (to be confirmed). Should you give your presentation through a slide show, please email the file beforehand to one of the organisers (pendrives usually work too, but sometimes the computer does not read them).
Monday 13th June
10:00 - 11:00 Registration
11:00 - 11:15 Introduction and information
11:15 - 11:45 Nickolas Castro – Trisection of smooth 4-manifolds with boundary
11:45 - 12:15 Jocelyne Ishak – Stable Model Categories
12:15 - 12:45 Claudius Zibrowius – Loopy tangles
12:45 - 14:15 Lunch
14:15 - 14:45 David Recio Mitter – Topological Complexity and Confi
guration spaces
14:45 - 15:30 Patrick Orson – A Khovanov stable homotopy type for colored links
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 17:00 Sarah Whitehouse – Plethories and cohomology operations
17:00 - 17:30 Break
17:30 - 18:00 Daniele Celoria – Concordances in 3-manifolds
18:00 - 18:30 Daniel Graves – An Introduction to functor homology
Tuesday 14th June
9:30 - 10:00 Christopher Smithers – Topological Machine Learning: Kernels on point clouds
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30 András Juhász – Defining and classifying TQFTs via surgery
11:30 - 11:45 Break
11:45 - 12:15 Csaba Nagy – Cobordism groups of branched coverings
12:15 - 12:45 Katie Vokes – Bicorn curves and the coarse geometry of curve graphs
12:45 - 14:15 Lunch
14:15 - 15:00 Francesca Iezzi – Graphs of curves, arcs, and spheres, and connections between all these objects
15:00 - 15:30 Alberto Cavallo – Concordance of links in grid homology
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 16:30 Michael Snape – Invariants of strongly invertible knots
16:30 - 17:00 Rachael Boyd – Calculating the homology of Coxeter groups
17:00 End of the conference
Funding decisions have been made. The attendees who received financial support have been notified by email.
For those of you with childcare commitments, do not forget the LMS Caring Supplementary Grants.
The attendees who asked for accommodation will stay at the Royal Eagle Hotel, 26-30 Craven Road, London W2 3QP. The attendees staying at the Royal Eagle Hotel should have already received a confirmation email from the organisation.
The venue of the conference is Read Lecture Theatre, 5th Floor, Sherfield Building, South Kensington campus at Imperial College London (located at Exhibition Road, SW7 2AZ, London).
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Organisers:
Tom Hockenhull
Marco Marengon
Should you need to contact one of us, please send us an email : x@imperial.ac.uk, where x is {t.hockenhull13, m.marengon13}.
There have been several successful conferences for early career stage topologists in the last few years. Find out more below:
This conference would not have been possible without the generous support of: