Texas Geometry and Topology Conference
Schedule
All talks will be in
M.D. Anderson Biology Laboratories 131
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Friday, October 31
6:00-7:00 Peter Ozsváth,
Columbia University
Floer homology and Dehn fillings
7:00-9:00 Dinner/reception
Saturday, November 1
9:00-9:30 Coffee/donuts/bagels
9:30-10:30 Jason Starr, MIT
Sections of algebraic fibrations
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 Genevieve Walsh, University of Texas
Some examples of virtually Haken and virtually fibered
three-manifolds
12:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:00 Mihnea Popa, Harvard University
Asymptotic
intersection numbers and restricted volumes
3:00-3:30 Cookies break
3:30-4:30 Richard Kenyon, Université Paris-Sud and Princeton
Asymptotics of random discrete interfaces
4:30-5:00 Break
5:00-6:00 Mu-Tao Wang, Columbia University
Mean curvature flows of Lagrangian submanifolds
6:00-9:00 Banquet dinner
Sunday, November 2
9:00-9:30 Coffee/donuts/bagels
9:30-10:30 Daniel Allcock, University of Texas
The fundamental group of the space of smooth cubic surfaces
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 Tony Pantev, University of Pennsylvania
Geometric transitions and integrable systems