RTG workshop program

Monday

lecture 1: Overview of construction (KW)

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

afternoon talk: 1-5minute flash talks by all participants

afternoon tutorial: scale calculus (KW), Deligne-Mumford spaces (NB)

afternoon working groups

lecture 3: Deligne-Mumford spaces (NB)

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

afternoon talk: Wolfgang Schmaltz on proving Gromov-Witten axioms for polyfold construction

afternoon tutorial: retractions

afternoon working groups

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

lecture 6: Fredholm property (JF)

afternoon talk: Michael Jemison - TBA

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

afternoon tutorial: polyfold perturbations and implicit function theorems

afternoon working groups

lecture 9: Fiber products and coherent perturbations (BEN!!)

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