RTG workshop program
Contents
Monday
9 Welcome & Logistics
9:15-10:15 lecture 1: Overview of construction (KW)
10:15-10:30 discussion
coffee break
11-12 lecture 2: Polyfolds, bundles, and sections as topological objects (KW)
12-12:30 discussion
lunch break
2-3:30 1-5minute flash talks by all participants
coffee break
4-6 tutorial: scale calculus (KW), Deligne-Mumford spaces (NB)
4-6 working groups on TBD / wiki-hackathon
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
coffee break
11-12 lecture 4: Smooth structures at interior points (scale calculus) (JF)
12-12:30 discussion
lunch break
2-3 Michael Jemison - TBA
coffee break
3:30-5:30 tutorial: retractions
3:30-5:30 working groups on TBD / wiki-hackathon
5:30 snacks & panel discussion on navigating math culture .. and contributing to it! (HIRO, Sheel, KW)
Wednesday
9-9:15 summaries of afternoon discussions
9:15-10:15 lecture 5: Smooth structures at nodes and Floer breaking (retractions) (JF)
quick coffee break
10:30-11:30 lecture 6: Fredholm property (JF)
11:30-11:45 discussion
12- 1 Wolfgang Schmaltz on Gromov-Witten axioms for polyfold construction
lunch and free afternoon
Thursday
9-9:30 Q&A
9:30-10:30 lecture 7: Smooth structures with Morse flow lines (KW)
10:30-10:45 discussion
coffee break
11:15-12:15 lecture 8: Global Polyfold Fredholm setup (isotropy) (NB)
12:15-12:30 discussion
lunch break
2-3 Zhengyi Zhou on Morse-Bott approach to invariance
3-3:30 discussion of invariance
coffee break
4-6 tutorial: polyfold perturbations and implicit function theorems
4-6 working group on invariance / wiki-hackathon
6 Cheeseboard pizza wrap-up mingle
Friday
9-9:15 summaries of afternoon discussions
9:15-10:15 lecture 9: Fiber products and coherent perturbations (and controlling compactness with auxiliary norms) (Ben Filippenko)
10:15-10:30 discussion
coffee break
11-12 lecture 10: Wrap-up of construction and Wish list of future constructions via polyfolds: invariance, homotopy units, bounding cochains... and more? (NB)
12-12:30 discussion
lunch break
2-5 working groups on TBD / wiki-hackathon
