Schedule (All talks will take place in Tutt Science Center Room 122 – Kresge Lecture Hall)
| Time | Thursday, June 15th | Friday, June 16th | Saturday, June 17th |
| 8:00-9:00 | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast |
| 8:45-9:00 | Opening Remarks | ||
| 9:00-9:20 | M. Timm | E. Dlugie | P. Parija |
| 9:25-9:45 | W. Braubach | W. Mogilski | C. Chen |
| 9:50-10:10 | A. De Saha | P. Patzt | J. Sahattchieve |
| 10:15-10:45 | Break | Break | Break |
| 10:50-11:10 | S. Hozoori | I. Soroko | Andy Putman |
| 11:15-11:35 | N. Kuanyshov | A. Mitra | |
| 11:40-12:00 | P. Sparks | C. Guilbault | |
| 12:00-1:30 | Lunch (Rastall) | Lunch (Rastall) | Problem Session: 12-12:30 \ Lunch |
| 1:30-2:30 | Andy Putman | Andy Putman | 2:30 Afternoon Outing |
| 2:30-2:50 | Break | Break | |
| 2:50-3:10 | M. Haulmark | S. Freedman | |
| 3:15-3:35 | G. Kim | MK. Montee | |
| 3:40-4:00 | T. Weighill | T. Pandey | |
| 4:05-4:30 | Break | Break | |
| 4:30-4:50 | D. Halverson | ||
| 4:55-5:15 | C. He | ||
| 5:30-6:30 | Dinner (Rastall) | Dinner (Rastall) |
Main Lectures: The topology of the moduli space of curves (Andy Putman, University of Notre Dame)
The moduli space of curves plays a fundamental role in many areas of math, ranging from low-dimensional topology and geometry to mathematical physics. Because it lies at the juncture of so many areas of mathematics, it can be described from many points of view.
In my lectures I will give an introduction to different ways to think about it, and a broad survey of what we know and don’t know about its topology.
