ECSTATIC 2015

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

You can find the following information on ECSTATIC's informal webpage:

• Programme, also available below on this webpage

• List of abstracts

• List of participants

• Practical information

The above documents will also be included in your registration pack.

Registration to the conference is now closed.

• 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 by non-specialists.

• The lecture theatre is endowed with a projector. 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).

Thursday 11th June

• 10:00 - 11:00  Registration and coffee

• 11:00 - 11:15  Introduction and information

• 11:15 - 12:15  Marco Golla - Twisting (Heegaard Floer) correction terms 

• 12:15 - 12:45  Rachael Boyd - Homological stability

• 12:45 - 14:00  Lunch (Maths Common Room)

• 14:00 - 14:30  Hatice Çoban - CR structures on 3-dimensional contact manifolds

• 14:30 - 15:30  Andrew Ranicki - The role of the number 8 in topology

• 15:30 - 16:00  Break with coffee (Maths Common Room)

• 16:00 - 16:30  Robert Kropholler - Free-by-Cyclic Groups

• 16:30 - 17:00  Gemma Halliwell - Families of Berge knots

• 17:00 - 17:15  Break

• 17:15 - 17:45  Duncan McCoy - Surgeries on torus knots

• 17:45 - 18:15  Carlo Collari - Contact invariants from Khovanov-type homologies

Friday 12th June

• 9:30 - 10:00  Pastries and coffee (Maths Common Room)

• 10:00 - 10:30  Antonio De Capua - Hyperbolic volume of links, via pants graph and train tracks

• 10:30 - 11:30  Liam Watson - Loop calculus, L-spaces and left-orders

• 11:30 - 12:00  Break

• 12:00 - 12:30  Antonio Alfieri - Taut foliations and L-spaces

• 12:30 - 13:00  Kyle Larson - Embedding 3-manifolds via surgery on surfaces

• 13:00 - 14:30  Lunch (Maths Common Room)

• 14:30 - 15:00  Claudius Zibrowius - On a polynomial Alexander invariant of tangles (and its categorification)

• 14:30 - 15:30  Thomas Wasserman - Spin Topological Quantum Field Theories and Anyons

• 15:30 - 16:00  Break with coffee (Maths Common Room)

• 16:00 - 16:30  Cristina Ana-Maria Anghel - Multivariable link invariants and renormalized quantum dimension

• 16:30 - 17:00  Matthew Burfitt - Free loop cohomology of complete flag manifolds

• 17:00 - 17:30  Mark Bell - Finding paths in graph triangulations

• 17:30  End of the conference

Some limited funding is available for attendees, and we are still actively looking for more funding. We hope to cover the accommodation costs and travel costs entirely, but at the moment we can't guarantee that.
Participants are anyway encouraged to try to find alternative fundings to help us ensure as wide a participation as is possible.

For those of you with childcare commitments, do not forget the LMS Childcare Supplementary Grants.

The attendees who registered before 1st May and asked for accommodation will stay at the Westpoint hotel, 168 - 172 Sussex Gardens Paddington, London, W2 1TP. The attendees staying at the Westpoint hotel should have already received a confirmation email from the organisation.

A map showing the route from the hotel to Imperial College is available here. This will also be included in your registration pack.

The venue of the conference is the Clore Lecture t heatre of Huxley Building (Imperial College London), located at 180 Queen's Gate, SW7 2RH London. 

View detailed directions to the venue

The closest underground stations are South Kensington and Gloucester Road, both on the Circle, District and Piccadilly lines. A journey planner (TfL journey planner) is available on the website of Transport for London.

We strongly advise obtaining an Oyster card for travel in London - it halves fares in general, and automatically charges minimum fares. Those in possession of 16-25 railcards can link them to their Oyster card for even lower fares - and the £5 deposit is fully refundable. They are available at most underground ticket machines.

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If coming from Western Europe, another option to consider is train: the Eurostar runs from Paris or Brussels into London and can some times be more affordable (and p leasant!) than air travel.

Organisers:

• Fyodor Gainullin

• Tom Hockenhull

• Marco Marengon

Should you need to contact one of us, please send us an email : x@imperial.ac.uk, where x \in {t.hockenhull13, m.marengon13} or fyodor.z@gmail.com, where z = Fyodor's last name.

Previous conferences

There have been several successful conferences for early career stage topologists in the last years:

• Young Topology Meeting 2014

• Young Topology Meeting 2013

• Young Topology Day 2012

This conference would not have been possible without the generous support of the below:

• London Mathematical Society

• Taught Course Centre

• Imperial College London Department of Mathematics

• EPSRC's Platform Grant