March 14-16, 2025Stolz Image

University of Notre Dame, IN, USA

 

Please join us to celebrate Stephan Stolz' retirement and topology and geometry in the Midwest! We thank the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Mathematics, School of Science, and Office of Research at Notre Dame for support.

 

Note: The more official website below contains local lodging links:

https://sites.nd.edu/stolzfest/

 

Speakers

Registration and Support

We ask that all participants register via the link below.  Registration by March 1 is requested and preliminary funding decisions will be made on February 15 (an additional round of funding decisions will be made on March 1).

Registration Link: StolzFest/MTS Registration

 

Schedule

All talks will occur in Hayes--Healy 127.  Coffee and snacks will be available in the second floor common room.

 

Friday March 14

3:00-4:00: Ralph Kaufmann: Mathematical interactions. A personal collage.

4:00-4:30: Break (coffee, etc.)

4:30-5:30: Laura Schaposnik: Brane quantization and 3-manifolds

 

Saturday March 15

9:30-10:30: Michael Joachim: Twisted spin^c bordism and twisted K-homology

10:30-11:00: Break

11:00-12:00: Maru Sarazola: K-theory of manifolds up to cut-and-paste

12:00-2:00: Lunch

2:00-3:00: Martina Rovelli: Towards a complicial set of cobordisms

3:00-3:30: Break

3:30-4:30: Dan Berwick-Evans: What is an elliptic object?

6:00: Conference Dinner (Jordan Hall Atrium)

 

Sunday March 16 

9:30-10:30: Holt Bodish: Knots, satellites and bordered bimodules

10:30-11:00: Break

11:00-12:00 Owen Gwilliam: Lattice vertex algebras from 4 manifolds: a holomorphic twist on 6d/2d correspondence