StolzFest: A Midwest Topology Meeting
March 14-16, 2025
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
- Dan Berwick-Evans, UIUC
- Holt Bodish, UIUC
- Owen Gwilliam, UMass (Amherst)
- Michael Joachim, Münster
- Ralph Kaufmann, Purdue
- Martina Rovelli, UMass (Amherst)
- Maru Sarazola, Minnesota
- Laura Schaposnik, UIC
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