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4th Manifold Atlas writers workshop: Thursday March 31st and Friday April 1st at the HIM
4th Manifold Atlas writers workshop: Thursday March 31st and Friday April 1st at the HIM
PROGRAM:
Thursday 31.03.11
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Participants:
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* [[User:Anna Abczynski|Anna Abczynski]], [[User:Martin Olbermann|Martin Olbermann]], [[User:Arturo Prat-Waldron|Arturo Prat-Waldron]], [[User:Tibor Macko|Tibor Macko]], [[User:Haggai Tene|Haggai Tene]], [[User:Matthias Kreck|Matthias Kreck]] and [[User:Diarmuid Crowley|Diarmuid Crowley]].
* 9.30 - 10.15 Introduction: orientation session for writing in the Atlas (main Lecture room)
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Pages worked on during the workshop:
* 10.15 - 12.30 Writing session I
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* 12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
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* 14.00 - 14.45 Lecture: Diarmuid Crowley: ''The $\mu$-$\Sigma$ heuristic: thickenings, extended quadratic forms and the classification of manifolds'' (main Lecture room)
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* 14.45 - 16.45 Writing session II
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* 16.45 - 17.15 Discussion and feedback session
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*18.30 Workshop dinner
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* [[Fake lens spaces]], [[Steenrod problem]], [[Pin structures]], [[Milnor sphere]], [[Kervaire sphere]], [[Plumbing]] [[Stable classification of 4-manifolds]] and [[Thickenings]].
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Friday 01.04.11
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* 9.30 - 12.30 Writing Session III
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* 12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
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* 14.00 - 16.30 Writing Session IV
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If you would like to attend for one or both days, please send a short email to [mailto:{{adminemail}} Diarmuid Crowley] containing the following information:
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# the dates you plan to attend,
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# whether you will bring your own lap-top - and if yes, whether the laptop is wireless enabled,
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# a topic or topics you are thinking of writing about (optional),
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# if you would like to attend the workshop dinner.
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Revision as of 23:40, 5 April 2011

An Atlas writing workshop is a sort of hackathon for topologists.

Over a period of usually two days, we introduce the Atlas to participants and then sit together to discuss manifolds and related topics and to write on the Atlas.

Below is a summary of the writing workshops to date:

Contents

1 Münster June 2010

The first Atlas workshop was hosted by the Lück topology group in Muenser, June 07 & 08.

Participants:

Pages worked on during the workshop:

2 Będlewo November 2010

The second Atlas writers workshop took place in Będlewo: the local organiser were Tadeusz Januszkiewicz and Krzysztof Pawałowski.

Participants:

Pages worked on during and after the workshop:

3 Bonn December 2010

From December 13th - 15th, there was a focused meeting at the HIM.

Participants:

Pages worked on during or following the meeting:

At the end of the meeting, Jeremy Gray joined the editorial board.

4 Bonn March & April 2011

4th Manifold Atlas writers workshop: Thursday March 31st and Friday April 1st at the HIM


Participants:

Pages worked on during the workshop:

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