The mapping class group of a surface is one of those objects in mathematics that is ubiquitous: it appears in low dimensional topology, the theory of Teichmüller places, the study of fibre bundles, algebraic geometry, topological field theories, etc. This has the advantage of offering a multitude of points of view to understand the mapping class group but also makes it hard to follow the advances in such a variety of subjects. We hope that this session will offer a transverse view on the areas connected with the mapping class group.
Speakers
Rinat Kahaev
Université de Genève
Mapping class group representations in the Hilbert space of square integrable functions over locally compact abelian groups
Thursday, 27 April, 16:30-17:15. Room Nicolau d’Olwer
Javier Aramayona
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Finitely-presented big mapping class groups
Thursday, 27 April, 17:20-18:05. Room Nicolau d’Olwer
Hugo Parlier
University of Fribourg
Interrogating length spectra and quantifying isospectral finiteness
Thursday, 27 April, 18:10-18:55. Room Nicolau d’Olwer
Marithania Silvero
Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences
On Khovanov homology of links
Friday, 28 April, 16:30-17:15. Room Nicolau d’Olwer
Julien Marché
Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
A Jones polynomial for curves on surfaces
Friday, 28 April, 17:20-18:05. Room Nicolau d’Olwer
Ken Bromberg
University of Utha
Convex co-compact subgroups of the mapping class group
Friday, 28 April, 18:10-18:55. Room Nicolau d’Olwer
Organisers
Wolfgang Pitsch
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Juan Souto
Université de Rennes 1
