The mini conference will take place at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics of the University of Gdańsk, May 16-18, 2025, in the room 1.18 of the Institute of Informatics.

Speakers

  • Jan Dymara (University of Wrocław)
  • Dawid Kielak (University of Oxford)
  • Monika Kudlinska (University of Cambridge)
  • Piotr Nowak (Polish Academy of Sciences)
  • Wojciech Politarczyk (Polish Academy of Sciences)
  • Józef Przytycki (George Washington University, University of Gdańsk)

Schedule

Saturday, May 17

09:30 - 10:30 Monika Kudlinska, $L^2$-Betti numbers of kernels and Thurston norm for groups
coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 Wojciech Politarczyk, Torres formulas for the multivariable link signature
lunch break
14:30 - 15:30 Jan Dymara, Tautological characteristic classes
coffee break
16:00 - 17:00 Dawid Kielak, Recognising virtually free-by-cyclic groups

Sunday, May 18

10:00 - 11:00 Piotr Nowak, Spectral gaps in higher cohomology and sums of squares
coffee break
11:30 - 12:30 Józef Przytycki, Yang-Baxter homology in Knot Theory: from graphical definition to HOMFLYPT Y-B homology

Venue

Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics
Wita Stwosza 57
80-502 Gdańsk

Link in: Google maps, OpenStreetMap

Contact

Rafał Lutowski, Maciej Mroczkowski: ajml@ug.edu.pl