Organizing Committee
- Kenneth Baker
University of Miami - Nathan Dunfield
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - Joshua Greene
Boston College - Sarah Rasmussen
University of Cambridge
Abstract
Dehn surgery has played a central role in the development of low-dimensional topology since it was first introduced by Max Dehn in 1910. Its study has stimulated several fascinating techniques that incorporate ideas from across mathematics: hyperbolic geometry, representation varieties, combinatorics, sutured manifold theory, and Floer homology, to name a few. These tools have led to sensational progress in understanding problems about Dehn surgery and low-dimensional topology at large. Furthermore, they seem well-suited to attack the major open problems in the area, such as the Berge conjecture and the L-space conjecture.
The workshop will function as a graduate summer school. At its core, the school will feature a sequence of mini-courses delivered by a cast of leading experts and distinguished expositors. The courses will unveil Dehn surgery and this suite of techniques to the next generation of researchers in the area. The school will additionally feature guided problem sessions and special presentations on the important role that computation has played and will continue to play in the field.
While targeted at graduate students, the school welcomes applications from qualified future and former graduate students, as well. The main goal will be to enjoy a stimulating week of exploration around a fascinating and active area.
The five mini-courses will be led by Steve Boyer, Cameron Gordon, Marc Lackenby, Yi Ni, and Rachel Roberts.
This workshop is partially supported by NSF CAREER Award DMS-1455132. Please request the funding that you would require in order to be able to attend. Please disregard the standard language on the ICERM application page concerning limited graduate student funding. In particular, you do not need to prepare a poster to be eligible for funding.
For full consideration for funding, please apply no later than March 30, 2019.

Confirmed Speakers & Participants
Talks will be presented virtually or in-person as indicated in the schedule below.
- Speaker
- Poster Presenter
- Attendee
- Virtual Attendee
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Antonio Alfieri
Central European University
-
Samantha Allen
Dartmouth College
-
Christopher Anderson
University of Miami
-
Kenneth Baker
University of Miami
-
Adam Baranowski
University of Cambridge
-
Brandon Bavier
Michigan State University
-
Fraser Binns
Boston College
-
Steven Boyer
Université du Québec à Montréal
-
Jacob Caudell
Boston College
-
Mustafa Cengiz
Boston College
-
Tamunonye Cheetham-West
Rice University
-
Sangbum Cho
Hanyang University
-
Michelle Chu
University of California, Santa Barbara
-
Irving Dai
Princeton University
-
Subhankar DEY
University at Buffalo, SUNY
-
Nathan Dowlin
Columbia University
-
Joshua Drouin
Kansas State University
-
Nathan Dunfield
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
-
Felix Eberhart
Universitaet Regensburg
-
Viktória Földvári
Eötvös Loránd University
-
Sam Freedman
Brown University
-
David Freund
Harvard University
-
Xinghua Gao
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
-
Cameron Gordon
University of Texas
-
Joshua Greene
Boston College
-
Ji-Young Ham
Chung-Ang University
-
Robert Haraway
Oklahoma State University
-
Michael Harrison
Pennsylvania State University
-
Kyle Hayden
Columbia University
-
Eriko Hironaka
AMS, Florida State University
-
Adam Howard
Montana State University
-
Marius Huber
Boston College
-
Kristóf Huszár
IST Austria
-
Jonathan Johnson
University of Texas at Austin
-
Sungmo Kang
The University of Texas at Austin
-
Marc Kegel
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
-
Juhyun Kim
California Institute of Technology
-
Douglas Knowles
Dartmouth College
-
Aleksandr Kolpakov
University of Neuchâtel
-
Feride Ceren Kose
The University of Texas at Austin
-
Siddhi Krishna
Boston College
-
Marc Lackenby
University of Oxford
-
Michael Landry
Yale University
-
Justin Lanier
Georgia Tech
-
Khanh Le
Temple University
-
Chaeryn Lee
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
-
Rachel Lehman
University of Arkansas
-
Dustin Leininger
North Carolina State University
-
Tao Li
Boston College
-
Beibei Liu
University of California, Davis
-
Clayton McDonald
Boston College
-
Joseph Melby
Michigan State University
-
Stefan Mihajlović
Central European University
-
Kyle Miller
University of California, Berkeley
-
Maggie Miller
Princeton University
-
Jesse Moeller
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
-
Kai Nakamura
University of Texas Austin
-
Yi Ni
Caltech
-
Jeffrey Norton
Washington University in St. Louis
-
Sinem Onaran
Hacettepe University
-
Jesus Oyola Pizarro
Washington University in St. Louis
-
Insung Park
Indiana University Bloomington
-
Anna Parlak
University of Warwick
-
Lisa Piccirillo
University of Texas
-
Sarah Rasmussen
University of Cambridge
-
Rachel Roberts
Washington University in St. Louis
-
Thomas Rodewald
Georgia Institute of Technology
-
Carson Rogers
Boston College
-
Nur Saglam
University of California - Riverside
-
Geoffrey Sangston
University of Maryland
-
Tanushree Shah
Glasgow University
-
Oliver Singh
Durham University
-
Alexander Stas
Graduate Center, CUNY
-
Tom Stone
Brown University
-
Luis Torres
San Jose State University
-
Lev Tovstopyat-Nelip
Boston College
-
Eric Towers
Oklahoma State University
-
Samuel Tripp
Dartmouth College
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Linh Truong
Columbia University
-
Bena Tshishiku
Brown University
-
Anastasiia Tsvietkova
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan / Rutgers University, Newark
-
Hannah Turner
University of Texas at Austin
-
Franco Vargas Pallete
institute for Advanced Study
-
Konstantinos Varvarezos
Princeton University
-
Laura Wakelin
University of Cambridge
-
Yuhan Wang
Brown University
-
Zachary Winkeler
Dartmouth College
-
Adam Wood
The University of Melbourne
-
William Worden
Rice University
-
Ana Wright
University of Nebraska at Lincoln
-
Andrew Yarmola
Princeton University
-
Raphael Zentner
University of Regensburg
-
Yanqing Zou
Dalian Minzu University
-
Jonathan Zung
Princeton University