Format and Goals

This meeting will bring together students, postdocs, and researchers from all over the world to stimulate research on fundamental questions in manifold theory. It will promote the interaction between researchers in high and low dimensional topology.

Structure:

The meeting is structured as follows: mini-courses in the first week by world experts (Crowley, Davis, Lueck, Stipsicz), which will include a special lecture by Kent Orr, and a conference in the second week. Both weeks focus on open problems and will allow ample time for collaborative work.

Research aims:

There are two main research aims for this meeting. The first is to identify settings for synergy from the interaction between high and low dimensions and to make progress on problems in these settings. The second is to produce a high-quality problem list to guide future research in manifold topology. It is our hope that a well-crafted and publicized problem list arising from the collaboration during the meeting will be of long-term benefit to the mathematical community.

Interaction at the meeting and problem list:

The following link in the Manifold Atlas will serve as platform for interaction:

http://www.map.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/Category:MATRIX_2019_Interactions

Schedule

Abstracts for week 2

Click on a name below to uncover the abstract. To download a pdf version click here.