Programme :

Lectures :

• Christine Lescop (Université Grenoble-Alpes): Invariants of links and 3-manifolds that count graph configurations.
• Carlo Petronio (Università di Pisa): The Hurwitz existence problem for surface branched covers.
• Loïc Poulain d'Andecy (Université de Reims): Fusion for the Yang-Baxter equation and the braid group.
• Rob Schneiderman (City University of New York): An elementary introduction to Whitney towers in 4-manifolds.

Exceptional talk in memory of Patrick Dehornoy:

• Mario Salvetti (Università di Pisa): The proof of K(π,1) conjecture for Affine Artin groups.

Lescop lectures : [Lecture Notes, last version, april 2020]

Petronio lectures : [Slides I] [Slides II] [Slides III] [Bibliography]

Poulain d'Andecy lectures : [Slides last talk]

Schneiderman lectures : [Slides I] [Slides II][Slides III]

Schedule :

	Monday 17th	Tuesday 18th	Wednesday 19th	Thursday 20th	Friday 21st
9:00	LESCOP I	LESCOP II	PETRONIO II	POULAIN D'ANDECY II	SCHNEIDERMAN III
10:00	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
10:30	POULAIN D'ANDECY I
		PETRONIO I	SCHNEIDERMAN II	PETRONIO III	POULAIN D'ANDECY III
11:30	Miller	Kjuchukova	Dai	Lopez	Riba
12:00	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
14:30	SCHNEIDERMAN I
		SALVETTI		LESCOP III
15:30	Celoria	FLASH TALKS		Riolo
16:00	Coffee Break	Coffee Break		Coffee Break
16:35	Yoon	POSTER SESSION		Gandolfi
17:10	Sane			Soulié