Workshop Announcement:

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           Trisections and low-dimensional topology
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                  March 20 to March 24, 2017

  American Institute of Mathematics Research Conference Center

                     San Jose, California

        http://aimath.org/workshops/upcoming/trisections


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Description:
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This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, will be devoted to
a new perspective on 4-dimensional topology introduced by Gay and
Kirby in 2012: 
Every smooth 4-manifold can be decomposed into three simple pieces
via a trisection, a generalization of a Heegaard splitting of a
3-manifold. The theory of trisections has expanded to include the
relative settings of surfaces in 4-manifolds and 4-manifolds with
boundary, and tantalizing evidence reveals that trisections may
bridge the gap between 3- and 4-dimensional topology. 

The workshop is organized by
David Gay, Robion Kirby, Jeffrey Meier, and Alexander Zupan.

For more details please see the workshop announcement page:
http://aimath.org/workshops/upcoming/trisections

Space and funding is available for a few more participants.
If you would like to participate, please apply by filling
out the on-line form (available at the link above) no later
than September 20, 2017. Applications are open to all, and
we especially encourage women, underrepresented minorities,
junior mathematicians, and researchers from primarily
undergraduate institutions to apply.

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AIM Research Conference Center:
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http://www.aimath.org/workshops/upcoming/