RTG workshop program

Monday

lecture 1: Overview of construction (KW)

lecture 2: Polyfolds, bundles, and sections as topological objects (KW)

Tuesday

lecture 3: Deligne-Mumford spaces (NB)

lecture 4: Smooth structures at interior points (scale calculus) (JF)

Wednesday

lecture 5: Smooth structures at nodes and Floer breaking (retractions) (JF)

lecture 6: Fredholm property (JF)

Thursday

lecture 7: Smooth structures with Morse flow lines (KW)

lecture 8: Global Polyfold Fredholm setup (isotropy) (NB)

afternoon talk: Zhengyi Zhou on Morse-Bott approach to invariance

Friday

lecture 9: Coherent perturbations (BEN!!)

lecture 10: Wish list of future constructions via polyfolds: homotopy units, bounding cochains... and more?