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