ISTANBUL CONTACT TOPOLOGY WORKSHOP
CONTACT TOPOLOGY LECTURE SERIES
26 February - 5 March
Koç University
| 26 February Thursday | 3:30 - 5:30 | SCI B10 | Hansjörg Geiges | Contact Dehn surgery |
| 27 February Friday | 2:00 - 4:00 | SCI 103 | Hansjörg Geiges | Symplectic fillings and Property P for knots |
| 2 March Monday | 3:30 - 5:30 | SCI B10 | Andras Stipsicz | Heegaard diagrams and Heegaard Floer homology |
| 3 March Tuesday | 9:15 - 10:45 | SCI B10 | Hansjörg Geiges | Contact surgery diagrams |
| 3 March Tuesday | 2:00 - 3:15 | SCI Z07 | Mohan Bhupal | W. homogeneous sing. and rational hom. disk smoothings |
| 3 March Tuesday | 3:30 - 5:30 | SCI B10 | Andras Stipsicz | The U^2=0 version of Heegaard Floer homology |
| 4 March Wednesday | 2:00 - 3:00 | Andras Stipsicz | Bogazici University Colloquium | |
| 4 March Wednesday | 4:45 - 5:45 | SCI Z42 | Hansjörg Geiges | Koc University Colloquium |
| 5 March Thursday | 9:15 - 10:45 | SCI B10 | Hansjörg Geiges | Tight contact structures and Cerf's theorem |
| 5 March Thursday | 2:00 - 3:15 | SCI Z07 | Joan Licata | An invariant for Legendrian knots in lens spaces |
| 5 March Thursday | 3:30 - 5:30 | SCI B10 | Andras Stipsicz | Contact structures and Seifert fibered 3-manifolds |
The talks will be at Science building of Koç University
MINI WORKSHOP on CONTACT TOPOLOGY
6 March 2009 Friday
Istanbul Center for Mathematical Sciences
| 10:00 - 11:15 | Hansjörg Geiges | Contact Geometry and Physics |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Break | |
| 11:45 - 1:00 | Hansjörg Geiges | Contact structures and geometric topology |
| 1:00 - 2:30 | Lunch | |
| 2:30 - 3:45 | Andras Stipsicz | Invariants of Legendrian and transverse knots I |
| 3:45 - 4:15 | Break | |
| 4:15 - 5:30 | Andras Stipsicz | Invariants of Legendrian and transverse knots II |
The talks will be at main lecture hall of Istanbul Center for Mathematical Sciences (IMBM)
Other pictures from the workshop
| PARTICIPANTS | |
| Ahmet Beyaz | METU |
| Andras Stipsicz | Renyi Institute, Hungary |
| Baris Coskunuzer | Koc University |
| Bulent Tosun | METU |
| Burak Ozbagci | Koc University |
| Deniz Ali Kaptan | Bogazici University |
| Deniz Bilman | Bogazici University |
| Elif Medetogullari | METU |
| Elif Yilmaz | METU |
| Ferit Ozturk | Bogazici University |
| Gulay Kaya | Galatasaray University |
| Hansjoerg Geiges | Koln University |
| Joan Licata | Max-Planck Institute |
| Kamuran Saygili | Yeditepe University |
| Kursat Aker | Feza Gursey Institute |
| Levent Dogus Sagun | Bogazici University |
| Mehmetcik Pamuk | Koc University |
| Meral Tosun | Galatasaray University |
| Metin Ozsarfati | Bogazici University |
| Mohan Bhupal | METU |
| Mustafa Korkmaz | METU |
| Nermin Salepci Ferret | Koc University |
| Nur Saglam | METU |
| Sait Demir | ITU |
| Seckin Demirbas | Bogazici University |
| Semih Ozlem | Bogazici University |
| Semra Pamuk | Koc University |
| Sergey Finashin | METU |
| Sultan Erdogan | Bilkent University |
| Tekin Dereli | Koc University |
| Tolga Etgu | Koc University |
| Yalim Dilek | Bogazici University |
| Yusuf Goren | Bogazici University |
Transportation to Koç University
Transportation to Boğaziçi University
This workshop and lecture series are supported by TÜBİTAK, IMBM and Koç University.