Schedule for: 24w5217 - Knot Theory Informed by Random Models and Experimental Data
Beginning on Sunday, March 31 and ending Friday April 5, 2024
All times in Banff, Alberta time, MDT (UTC-6).
| Sunday, March 31 | |
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| 16:00 - 17:30 | Check-in begins at 16:00 on Sunday and is open 24 hours (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
Dinner ↓ A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 20:00 - 22:00 |
Informal gathering ↓ Join us for Meet & Greet, PDC Lounge 2nd Floor (Other (See Description)) |
| Monday, April 1 | |
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| 07:00 - 09:00 |
Breakfast ↓ Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 09:00 - 09:15 |
Introduction and Welcome by BIRS Staff ↓ A brief introduction to BIRS with important logistical information, technology instruction, and opportunity for participants to ask questions. (TCPL 201) |
| 09:15 - 10:15 | Benjamin Burton: Knot theory: Computation and experimentation (TCPL 201) |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:45 - 11:30 | Nathan Dunfield: Roots of Alexander polynomials of random positive 3-braids (TCPL 201) |
| 11:30 - 13:00 |
Lunch ↓ Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 14:00 - 14:20 |
Group Photo ↓ Meet in foyer of TCPL to participate in the BIRS group photo. The photograph will be taken outdoors, so dress appropriately for the weather. Please don't be late, or you might not be in the official group photo! (TCPL Foyer) |
| 14:20 - 15:05 | Colin Adams: Hyperbolicity of Staked Knots (TCPL 201) |
| 15:05 - 15:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 15:30 - 16:15 | Erica Flapan: New Theories of how proteins knot (TCPL 201) |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Break (Other (See Description)) |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Anastasiia Tsvietkova: 10-min Talks: Roy Deutch, Rose Kaplan-Kelly, Mario Eudave-Muñoz, Neal Madras, Andrew Rechnitzer (TCPL 201) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
Dinner ↓ A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 19:30 - 20:30 | Rehearsal (math theater) (TCPL 201) |
| Tuesday, April 2 | |
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| 07:00 - 09:00 |
Breakfast ↓ Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 09:15 - 10:15 | Yoav Rieck: Knots and computational complexity (TCPL 201) |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:45 - 11:30 | Bram Petri: Probabilistic methods in low-dimensional hyperbolic geometry (TCPL 201) |
| 11:30 - 13:15 |
Lunch ↓ Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 13:15 - 14:00 | Jessica Purcell: Excluding cosmetic surgeries on knots and 3-manifolds (TCPL 201) |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Break (Other (See Description)) |
| 14:15 - 15:00 | Joseph Maher: Singularity of measures for Cannon-Thurston maps (TCPL 201) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 15:30 - 16:15 | ANNA ROIG SANCHIS: On the length spectrum of random hyperbolic 3-manifolds. (TCPL 201) |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Break (Other (See Description)) |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Anastasiia Tsvietkova: 10-min Talks: Kate Petersen, Jaeyun Bae, Touseef Haider, Thomas Wolf, Margaret Doig (TCPL 201) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
Dinner ↓ A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 19:30 - 20:30 | Colin Adams: Mathematical Theatre (TCPL 201) |
| Wednesday, April 3 | |
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| 07:00 - 09:00 |
Breakfast ↓ Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 09:15 - 10:00 | Marina Ville: Knots invariants for knots given by random braids (TCPL 201) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Jessica Purcell: Open Problems Session (TCPL 201) |
| 11:30 - 13:00 |
Lunch ↓ Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 13:30 - 17:30 | Free Afternoon (Banff National Park) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
Dinner ↓ A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| Thursday, April 4 | |
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| 07:00 - 09:00 |
Breakfast ↓ Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 09:15 - 10:00 | Jason Cantarella: Exploring large random knots: New algorithms and questions (TCPL 201) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:31 - 11:16 | Clayton Shonkwiler: Generating (and Computing with) Very Large Ensembles of Random Polygonal Knots (TCPL 201) |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Break (Other (See Description)) |
| 11:30 - 13:15 |
Lunch ↓ Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 13:16 - 14:00 | Claus Ernst: Random polygons in spherical confinement (TCPL 201) |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Break (Other (See Description)) |
| 14:15 - 15:00 | Yuanan Diao: A knotting complexity estimator for random knots on the cubic lattice (TCPL 201) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 15:31 - 16:16 | Uta Ziegler: Extensions to polygon generation in spherical confinement (TCPL 201) |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Break (Other (See Description)) |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Joel Hass: 10-min Talks: Yuanan Diao, Claus Ernst, Joam Porti, Ryan Budney, Anastasiia Tsvietkova (TCPL 201) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
Dinner ↓ A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 19:30 - 20:20 | Anastasiia Tsvietkova: 10-min talks: Francisco Martinez, Chaim Even-Zohar, Joel Hass, Peter Huxford (TCPL 201) |
| 20:30 - 21:15 | Math movie and/or afterparty (TCPL Lounge) |
| Friday, April 5 | |
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| 07:00 - 09:00 |
Breakfast ↓ Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 09:15 - 10:00 | Moshe Cohen: Average genus and average signature of a 2-bridge knot (TCPL 201) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Checkout by 11AM ↓ 5-day workshop participants are welcome to use BIRS facilities (TCPL ) until 3 pm on Friday, although participants are still required to checkout of the guest rooms by 11AM. (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre) |
| 10:45 - 11:30 | Efstratia Kalfagianni: Crossing numbers of satellite knots (TCPL 201) |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch from 11:30 to 13:30 (Vistas Dining Room) |
