3. Postdoctoral Program - MSRI

Schedule
Research Workshop:
Homology Theories of Knots and Links
March 15 to March 19, 2010, MSRI, Berkeley, CA, USA
Monday March 15, 2010
A 2-category associated with a holomorphic symplectic
09:30AM - 10:30AM Lev Rozansky
manifold (See Abstract)
10:30AM - 11:00AM Tea
Categorification of coloured Jones and 3j-symbols (See
11:00AM - 12:00PM Catharina Stroppel
Abstract)
12:00PM - 02:00PM Lunch
02:00PM - 03:00PM Aaron Lauda A categorification of quantum sl2 (See Abstract)
03:00PM - 03:30PM Tea
The diagrammatic Soergel category and sl(N)-foams (See
03:30PM - 04:30PM Pedro Vaz
Abstract)
Tuesday March 16, 2010
09:30AM - 10:30AM Robert Lipshitz Hochschild homology via time dilation (See Abstract)
10:30AM - 11:00AM Tea
11:00AM - 12:00PM Joshua Greene The lens space realization problem (See Abstract)
12:00PM - 02:00PM Lunch
02:00PM - 03:00PM András Stipsicz Topological approach to Heegaard Floer homology I
03:00PM - 03:30PM Tea
03:30PM - 04:30PM Zoltan Szabo A topological approach to Heegaard Floer homology, II
Wednesday March 17, 2010
Topological Quantum Information, Khovanov Homology
09:30AM - 10:30AM Louis Kauffman
and the Jones Polynomial (See Abstract)
10:30AM - 11:00AM Tea
Categorification of quantum groups and quantum knot
11:00AM - 12:00PM Ben Webster
invariants (See Abstract)
12:00PM - 02:00PM Lunch
Holomorphic triangles and maps induced by contact
02:00PM - 03:00PM Jacob Rasmussen
structures (See Abstract)
03:00PM - 03:30PM Tea
Lagrangian correspondences and invariants for 3-manifolds
03:30PM - 04:30PM Tim Perutz
with boundary (See Abstract)
Thursday March 18, 2010
09:30AM - 10:30AM Ciprian Manolescu A combinatorial approach to Heegaard Floer invariants