Summer school - New structures in low-dimensional topology

The Simons collaboration on “New structures in low-dimensional topology” organises a summer school, consisting of 6 short lecture series on topics and techniques in low-dimensional topology. The main target audience are PhD students in low-dimensional topology.

Dates: 1th-5th July 2024
Location: Rényi Institute (Monday and Tuesday) and Gólyavár (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday)
Zoom: Lectures will be streamed on zoom, unless the lecturers ask not to. Click here to open the zoom link.

The summer school will consist of the six lecture series:

1. John Baldwin (Boston College) & Tom Mrowka (MIT)
   Instanton Floer homology and applications
2. Sergei Gukov (Caltech) & Sunghyuk Park (Harvard)
   New quantum invariants from braiding Verma modules
3. Josh Greene (Boston College) and Andrew Lobb (University of Durham)
   Symplectic geometry and inscription problems
4. Maggie Miller (UT Austin)
   Knotted surfaces in the 4-sphere
5. Cris Negron (USC)
   Quantum groups and some emerging topology
6. Sucharit Sarkar (UCLA)
   Framed flow categories in the presence of disk bubbles

Other information

• List of abstracts
• List of lightning talks
• Schedule
• Practical information
• List of restaurants close to the institute