GeoTop Spring Retreat 2023

Spring retreat for GeoTop members.

Meeting time: ~ 7:45 am at Nørreport station on the platform for train Re 2208, departure 7:59, on Wednesday, 19 April, where we will take the train to Hornbæk via Helsingør.
We start with a light breakfast at the hotel 9:30. The meeting ends at 14:30 pm in Hornbæk on Thursday, 20 April.

Wednesday April 19

10:00 Intro (Nathalie)
          7min presentations (4 talks: Maxime, Andrea, Bai, Erik)
11:00 break
11:10 What are the Goldman bracket and Turaev cobracket, and what do people do with them? (Florian)

12:00 lunch

13:30 hike and swim

15:30 coffee

16:00 What is Morava K-theory (Shachar)
           7min presentations (5 talks: Eric, Arina, Ben, Jan, Oscar)

17:00 break
17:10 7min presentations (4 talks: Thomas, Joachim, Dani, Shachar)
          Shrinkers and entropy in mean curvature flow (Jingxuan)
          What can the mean curvature flow do? (Alex)

Thursday April 20

10:00 What is the Ricci flow and how does it prove the Poincaré conjecture? (Alex)
          7min presentations (4 talks: Niels, Vignesh, Marie-Camille, Mikala)
11:00 break
          Factorisation homology (Jan)
11:10 7min presentations (4 talks: Søren, Marius, Rodrigue, Jingxuan)

13:00 7min presentations (4 talks: Nanna, Adriano, Pierre, Alexis)
           How can homotopy theory be useful for studying high dimensional manifolds? (Robert)

Train back at 14:46 from Hornbæk station. Arrival at 16:00 at Nørreport.