Title: Detection results in link Floer homology  Abstract: In this talk I will briefly describe link Floer homology toolbox and its usefulness. Then I will show how link Floer homology can

Title: Symplectic fillings of lens spaces Abstract: Many contact 3-manifolds arise as boundaries of symplectic 4-manifolds, and we are often interested in the filling problem for a given contact 3-manifold.  That

Title: Slice links and smooth 4-manifolds Abstract: We vary the trace embedding lemma in order to prove results about smooth, closed, simply connected 4-manifolds, studying smoothly slice links in them. We focus

Title: Infinitely many Lagrangian Tori in Milnor fibers constructed via Lagrangian Fillings of Legendrian links Abstract: One approach to studying symplectic manifolds with contact boundary is to consider Lagrangian submanifolds with Legendrian

Title: The homotopy type of a finite 2-complex with non-minimal Euler characteristic Abstract: Two presentations for a group G which have the same deficiency are called exotic if the corresponding presentation complexes

Title: Mutations of reflections and existence of pseudo-acyclic orderings for type An   Abstract: In a recent paper by K.-H. Lee, K. Lee and M. Mills, a mutation of reflections in the

Title: Some Link Detection ResultsAbstract: A central question in low dimensional topology is; how can we distinguish links? In this talk I will discuss various classical invariants which can help

Abstract: Cagri will talk about some symplectic/contact topological aspects of Brieskorn singularities $x^p+y^q+z^r=0$. He’ll tell how to draw the surgery diagrams of their canonical contact structures and prove that the

Title: Geometry of algebraic surfaces via their Cox rings Abstract: Cox ring is an important tool in modern algebraic geometry and several other branches of mathematics. In the first part

Title: Geometry of algebraic surfaces via combinatorics of cones Abstract: Effective, nef, semiample cones of projective manifolds are fundamental tools in algebraic geometry. They tell us about the geometry of