RTG workshop program

Monday

9:15-10:15 lecture 1: Overview of construction (KW)

10:15-10:30 discussion

11-12 lecture 2: Polyfolds, bundles, and sections as topological objects (KW)

12-12:30 discussion

2-3:30 1-5minute flash talks by all participants

4-6 tutorial: scale calculus (KW), Deligne-Mumford spaces (NB)

working group on TBD

6 pizza mix & mingle

Tuesday

9-9:15 summaries of afternoon discussions

9:15-10:15 lecture 3: Deligne-Mumford spaces (NB)

10:15-10:30 discussion

11-12 lecture 4: Smooth structures at interior points (scale calculus) (JF)

12-12:30 discussion

2-3 Michael Jemison - TBA

3:30-6 tutorial: retractions

working group on TBD

Wednesday

9-9:15 summaries of afternoon discussions

9:15-10:15 lecture 5: Smooth structures at nodes and Floer breaking (retractions) (JF)

10:30-11:30 lecture 6: Fredholm property (JF)

11:30-11:45 discussion

12- 1 Wolfgang Schmaltz on proving Gromov-Witten axioms for polyfold construction

Thursday

9-9:15 summaries of afternoon discussions

9:15-10:15 lecture 7: Smooth structures with Morse flow lines (KW)

10:15-10:30 discussion

11-12 lecture 8: Global Polyfold Fredholm setup (isotropy) (NB)

12:15-12:30 discussion

2-3 Zhengyi Zhou on Morse-Bott approach to invariance

3-3:30 discussion of invariance

4-6 tutorial: polyfold perturbations and implicit function theorems

afternoon working group on invariance

Friday

9-9:15 summaries of afternoon discussions

9:15-10:15 lecture 9: Fiber products and coherent perturbations (BEN!!) (controlling compactness with auxiliary norms)

10:15-10:30 discussion

11-12 lecture 10: Wish list of future constructions via polyfolds: homotopy units, bounding cochains... and more? (NB)

12:15-12:30 discussion