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