Organizing Committee
Comité d’organisation
David Gay (University of Georgia)
Delphine Moussard (Université d’Aix-Marseille)
The goal of this workshop is to bring together PhD students and researchers, younger and older, to spend one week studying the topic of symplectic structures and trisections. Participants are encouraged to give a talk within the following list. The detailed program is attached.
TALKS
1. Symplectic manifolds
2. Neighborhood theorems
3. Symplectic submanifolds and complex curves, including singularities
4. Smooth handle decompositions
5. Smooth trisections
6. Bridge trisections
7. Bridge trisections of algebraic curves
8. Branched covers
9. Branched covers and bridge trisections (smooth case)
10. Trisections of algebraic surfaces as application of bridge trisections of algebraic curves
11. Putting symplectic surfaces in CP^2 into bridge position – part 1
12. Symplectic surfaces, CP^2 , bridge position – part 2
13. Contact structures in dimension 3, Liouville vector fields, and symplectizations
14. Weinstein 4–manifolds, Liouville manifolds, handle decompositions
15. Existence of Weinstein trisections – part 1
16. Existence of Weinstein trisections – part2
SPONSORS
