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Low Dimensional Topology 
Applications are open to participate in NCNGT 2021, a mixed (a)synchronous conference running online from June 14-25, 2021.
NCNGT showcases the work of early career researchers in geometric topology. This year, we will have nine special sessions, each with pre-recorded talks, discussion via Discord, and live events like teas, office hours, and problem sessions.
This year’s topic groups:
Beyond the chalkboard: topology through outreach
Dynamics and geometry of discrete subgroups of Lie groups
Foliations, flows, and dynamics in 3-manifolds
Recent techniques in Floer and Khovanov homology
Hyperbolic manifolds
Infinite type surfaces and big mapping class groups
Knots and braids in dimensions 3 and 3.5
Low-dimensional contact and symplectic topology
Symmetric spaces and generalizations
We will also have four live plenary talks, given by Jayadev Athreya (Washington), Ian Biringer (Boston College), Priyam Patel (Utah), and Arunima Ray (MPIM).
Applications to participate are due Monday, June 7; we will notify applicants on a rolling basis. We also encourage anyone interested — but especially graduate students — to submit a “Postcard from a Geometric Topologist”.
For more information, please see the conference website at http://www.ncngt.org or email the organizers at ncngt.organizers@gmail.com
-Martin Bobb, Siddhi Krishna, and Allison Miller, conference organizers
Comment by Allison Miller — May 10, 2021 @ 8:22 am |
The Cornell Topology Festival: in person 6–8 May 2022. http://pi.math.cornell.edu/~festival/
Comment by Tim Riley — September 10, 2021 @ 2:51 pm |
Tech Topology Conference, Online, December 10-12, 2021
https://etnyre.math.gatech.edu/TechTopology/2021/index.html
Comment by Jon Simone — October 24, 2021 @ 7:50 pm |
Graduate summer school “Frontiers in geometry and topology”, ICTP (Trieste), August 1-5, 2022; http://indico.ictp.it/event/9705/
Research conference “Frontiers in geometry and topology”, ICTP (Trieste), August 8-12, 2022; http://indico.ictp.it/event/9706/
*APPLICATION DEADLINE FEB 28, 2022*
Comment by Paul Seidel — January 5, 2022 @ 5:15 pm |
Séminaire de Mathématiques Supérieures 2022: Floer Homotopy Theory
UBC, Vancouver July 11-22, 2022.
The target audience is graduate students or other early career people in fields related to Floer Homotopy Theory, very broadly construed. Please tell anyone you know who might be interested.
The application to attend can also be found on the event page: https://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/220711-sdms2fht
The application deadline is February 4, 2022.
Housing will be provided for at least the first 50 accepted applicants. There is a registration fee (to be paid later) to discourage spurious registrations, but this can be waived if it is an obstacle to attendance.
Comment by Robert Lipshitz — January 14, 2022 @ 5:14 pm |
Topology Students Workshop
July 25-29, 2022
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA
http://tsw.gatech.edu
Organizers: Caitlin Leverson, Dan Margalit, Yvon Verberne, Rebecca Winarski
In addition to research talks by leading mathematicians in geometry and topology, we will have hands-on training and panel discussions on professional development topics such as:
Creating and delivering research presentations
Writing grant proposals and research statements
Writing and submitting research papers
Careers in and out of academia
Etiquette in academia
Applying for jobs
Mentors include:
Akram Alishahi, Georgia
John Etnyre, Georgia Tech
Caitlin Levrson, Bard
Sara Maloni, Virginia
Dan Margalit, Georgia Tech
Lisa Traynor, Bryn Mawr
Yvon Verberne, Georgia Tech
Becca Winarski, Holy Cross
The workshop is geared towards graduate students in geometry and topology. Accepted students will receive funding for travel and accommodations. For application information, see the web site (above).
Students from underrepresented backgrounds are especially encouraged to apply.
Application link: https://gatech.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1LZM6ApkYcz9OVo
Application deadline: February 28, 2022.
Supported by the National Science Foundation and Georgia Institute of Technology
Comment by Dan Margalit — February 3, 2022 @ 10:36 am |
Trisectors Workshop 2022
June 27-July 1, 2022
Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA
https://sites.google.com/view/tw2022
Join us for a five-day workshop hosted by Western Washington University. Mornings will be dedicated to talks, and in the afternoons, participants will work on open problems related to 4-manifold trisections in small groups.
To apply for funding, please complete the registration form by April 22, 2022: https://forms.gle/Ltw8mRR6njNe3fTH9
Comment by Alex Zupan — February 23, 2022 @ 9:46 am |
New Developments in Four Dimensions
June 13–17, 2022
University of Victoria
Victoria, BC, Canada
https://math.stanford.edu/~maggiehm/developmentsin4D
This 5-day conference will bring together experts in various aspects of four-dimensional topology. Themes include diffeomorphism groups of four-manifolds, construction and detection of exotic four-manifolds, and trisections of four-manifolds. In addition to standard plenary talks, we will have a lightning talk session open to submissions from all participants.
To apply to participate, please visit the conference webpage and fill out the registration form by April 10, 22.
We anticipate limited funding to cover travel cost and accommodation, with priority given to early career participants.
Comment by Maggie Miller — March 28, 2022 @ 11:08 pm |
Topological Data Visualization Workshop at the University of Iowa (in person/hybrid) May 16 – 20, 2022
https://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~idarcy/CONF/TDV.html
Comment by Isabel Darcy — April 3, 2022 @ 5:57 pm |
“Reflections on Geometry” Conference
Reflections on Geometry: 3-Manifolds, Groups and Singularities
A Conference in Honor of Walter Neumann
June 7-10, 2022
Columbia University/Barnard College, New York City
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~walterfest [www.math.columbia.edu]
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Invited Speakers:
Martin Bridson* (Oxford University)
Danny Calegari (University of Chicago)
Ruth Charney (Brandeis University)
Pallavi Dani (LSU)
Dave Futer (Temple University)
Dave Gabai (Princeton University)
Craig Hodgson (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Svetlana Katok (Penn State University)
Matthias Kreck (Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, Germany)
Chris Leininger (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Feng Luo (Rutgers)
Alex Margolis (Vanderbilt University)
Rob Meyerhoff (Boston College)
Paul Norbury (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Helge Pederson (Universidade Federal do Ceara, Brazil)
Anne Pichon* (Aix Marseille Universite, CNRS, France)
Alan Reid* (Rice University)
Stephan Tillmann (University of Sydney, Australia)
Jonathan Wahl (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Christian Zickert (University of Maryland, College Park)
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Support for travel and housing is available for graduate students and
recent PhD’s in the US. For supported participants, we will arrange
participants from under-represented groups to encourage diversity in
the mathematical community. Funding for this conference is provided
by the NSF.
Please check the conference homepage for details on how to apply for support. The
deadline for applications is May 15th, 2022.
If you plan to attend the conference, please register on the conference homepage.
Organizers:
Mohammed Abouzaid, Jason Behrstock, Abhijit Champanerkar, Ilya Kofman,
Joseph Maher
*= online talks
Comment by Joseph Maher — April 30, 2022 @ 10:09 pm |
The two-day conference Connections Workshop: Floer Homotopy Theory (https://www.msri.org/workshops/974) will run September 8th and 9th at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI). This workshop will feature talks by experts in Floer theory (and its applications to low-dimensional topology) and homotopy theory. It will include two expository lectures aimed at graduate students and other researchers who are new to the field, as well as a five research talks, given by the following speakers.
Expository Talks
Jennifer Hom, Georgia Institute of Technology
Mona Merling, University of Pennsylvania
Research Talks
Po Hu, Wayne State University
Xin Jin, Boston College
Inbar Klang, Columbia University
Shira Tanny, Institute for Advanced Study
Melissa Zhang, University of Georgia
There will also be a contributed talks session and a panel discussion focusing on professional development. This workshop will highlight contributions by women and gender minorities, and members of these groups and of other underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to attend. This workshop is open to all mathematicians. The deadline for applying for funding is June 1; contributed talks will be solicited shortly thereafter.
This workshop precedes the weeklong Introductory Workshop: Floer Homotopy Theory (https://www.msri.org/workshops/975) which may also be of interest to participants.
Comment by Kristen Hendricks — May 10, 2022 @ 9:27 am |
Introductory Workshop
Floer Homotopy Theory program
MSRI, September 12, 2022 – September 16, 2022
The workshop with mix basic and cutting edge topic from algebraic topology and Floer homotopy theory, aimed at a mixed audience. The workshop will feature:
– A Homotopy Theory lecture series by Anna Marie Bohmann and Alexander Kupers, aimed at symplectic geometers.
– A Floer Theory lecture series by Dusa McDuff and Chris Wendl, aimed at algebraic topologists
– Paired hour talks on several subjects, connecting classical ideas to recent results:
(a) String topology by Oancea and Hingston
(b) Infinity structures and operads by Bottman and Wilkins
(c) Atiyah-Bott-Shapiro orientations and the Cohen-Jones-Segal
construction by Klang and Kragh
(d) Monopole Floer theory and homotopy theory by Lin, Shi, and Xu.
– Moderated question-and-answer sessions about Floer theory and
homotopy theory.
See https://www.msri.org/workshops/975 for additional information and a link to the registration page. Note that deadline for applying for funding is June 6!
Comment by Nathan Dunfield — June 2, 2022 @ 7:52 pm |
Modern advances in geometric group theory
Manchester, UK, September 5 – 9, 2022
5-day workshop on geometric group theory, with elements of geometry/topology/outer automorphisms/1-relator groups/random groups/fibring, for more description click the link below.
We gratefully acknowledge support from the Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Trust, and the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Speakers:
Macarena Arenas (University of Cambridge)
Calum Ashcroft (University of Cambridge)
Jim Belk (University of Glasgow)
Alex Evetts (University of Manchester)
Giles Gardam (University of Münster)
Sebastian Hensel (LMU München)
Dawid Kielak (University of Oxford)
Marco Linton (University of Warwick)
Dan Margalit (Georgia Tech)*
Jean Pierre Mutanguha (Princeton)
Bena Tshishiku (Brown University)*
Alina Vdovina (University of Newcastle)
Yvon Verberne (University of Toronto)
Karen Vogtmann (University of Warwick)
Organisers: Jonathan Bowden, Tara Brendle, Richard Webb, Henry Wilton
https://sites.google.com/view/modern-advances-ggt/
Apply for place/funding/contributed talk on the registration form. Deadline for registration 22nd July.
Comment by Richard Webb — June 24, 2022 @ 8:29 am |
UNYTS 2022: 3rd Upstate New York Topology Seminar
Syracuse University, October 22, 2022
This is a one-day regional in-person topology conference focussing on algebraic and low-dimensional topology. There will be three plenary talks, given by Francesco Lin, Allison N. Miller, and Martina Rovelli, as well as parallel sessions. For these, we plan to have an open call for speakers, with preference given to early-career participants (students, postdocs, and tenure-track professors) and to regional speakers (from the broad region of New York State and nearby).
We have applied for limited funding for accommodation with priority given to early career participants.
Website and registration: https://clamille.github.io/UNYTS2022.html
Important: To have an idea of the potential number of attendees, we would appreciate if you could register by September 1. The deadline for requesting to speak in the parallel sessions is September 1.
Comment by Stephan Wehrli — July 14, 2022 @ 2:18 pm |
Group actions and surgery on manifolds. Clifford Lectures in memory of Slawomir Kwasik.
Tulane University, New Orleans, November 2-4, 2022
Professor Reinhard Schultz (UC Riverside) will give three lectures: Lecture 1. Rational invariants in algebraic and geometric topology. Lecture 2. Isovariant homotopy and classifications of group actions on manifolds. Lecture 3. High-dimensional topology and low-dimensional group actions. In addition, there will be several talks by distinguished researchers in the field of geometric topology.
Website and registration: https://sites.google.com/view/clifford22
Comment by Nikolai Saveliev — August 18, 2022 @ 10:40 am |
Young Geometric Group Theory XI
13 – 17 February, 2023 in Münster, Germany
Registration is now open!
https://www.uni-muenster.de/GGT/YGGT/index.html
Comment by Kasia Jankiewicz — August 31, 2022 @ 9:43 am |
Tech Topology Conference
Georgia Institute of Technology, Dec 9-11, 2022
Speakers:
Wade Bloomquist (Georgia Tech)
Ruth Charney (Brandeis)
Dave Gabai (Princeton)
Maggie Miller (Stanford)
Abdoul Karim Sane (Georgia Tech)
Hannah Schwartz (Princeton)
Jonathan Simone (Georgia Tech)
Hannah Turner (Georgia Tech)
Yvon Verberne (Toronto)
Deadline for registration and lightning talk submissions: October 14
https://etnyre.math.gatech.edu/TechTopology/2022/index.html
Comment by Austin Christian — September 15, 2022 @ 5:19 am |