Advances in Geometric and Quantum Topology

July 13-16, 2026 at Temple University, Philadelphia

∙ Registration and Funding ∙

Picture with Qingtao Chen, Helen Wong, Giulio Belleti, Mike Willis, Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska, Effie Kalfagianni, and Helen Wong

Picture with Qingtao Chen, Helen Wong, Giulio Belleti, Mike Willis, Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska, Effie Kalfagianni, and Helen Wong

∙ Schedule & Banquet ∙

Picture with Dave Futer, Josh Howie, Anastasiia Tsvietkova, Ilya Kofman, Abhijit Champanerkar and others

∙ Local Information ∙

Picture with Christine Lee, Roland van der Veen, Tian Yang, Renaud Detcherry, and others

∙ Accommodation ∙

Picture with Cheryl Balm, Thomas Jaeger, and Chris Cornwell

July 13

Morning:

9:30-10:20: Helen Wong

11:00-11:50: Tye Lidman

Afternoon:

2:00-2:50: Joshua Wang

3:00-3:50: Diana Hubbard

4:20-5:10: Shashini Marasinghe

July 14

Morning:

9:00-9:50: Francis Bonahon

10:20-11:10: Patricia Sorya

11:20-12:10: Allison Moore

Afternoon:

2:00-2:50: David Jordan

3:00-3:50: Matt Young

4:20-5:20: Lightning talks

Adam Lowrance--A characterization of adequate Turaev genus one links

Lara Lahey--Closed Essential Surfaces in Montesinos Knots

Adam Robertson--Analyzing a 3-manifold invariant that arises from gl(1|1)

Andrew Clickard--Volume Estimates of 2-node Arborescent Links

Ashwin Ayilliath Kutteri

Tanushree Shah

Shana Li--Fixed-parameter tractable computation of Reshetikhin--Turaev knot polynomials via tensor networks

Rolando Ramos

July 15

Morning:

9:00-9:50: Jessica Purcell

10:20-11:10: Adam Sikora

11:20-12:10: Matt Hedden

12:30-12:35: Laudation for Effie (Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska)

Afternoon:

2:00-2:50: Rhea Palak Bakshi

3:00-3:50: Matt Harper

4:20-5:20: Lightning talks

Nico Fontova

Melody Molander--Virtual Links from Thompson's Group V

Brevan Ellefsen--Growth Rate of Essential Surfaces via Measured Laminations

Moshe Cohen--Central limit theorems for invariants of 2-bridge knots

Dean Spyropoulos--Myopic Tutte polynomials and Khovanov homology in RP3

Matthew Elpers

Joe Boninger--Knot Floer Homology, the Burau Representation, and Quantum gl(1,1)

Max Throm

6:30-9:00 Banquet

July 16

Morning:

9:00-9:50: Radmila Sazdanovic

10:20-11:10: Anastasiia Tsvietkova

11:20-12:10: Giulio Belletti

Afternoon:

1:30-2:30: Problem session

A banquet will be held on Wedneday, July 15 at Le Viet at 6:30pm.

Le Viet Address: 1019 S 11th St, Philadelphia, PA 19147

Cost: Graduate students: 20USD, Post-docs: 30USD, Other Participants: 50USD

In order to make a reservation at the restaurant for the conference, we need conference participants planning on attending the banquet to register for it and pay the fee ahead of the banquet.

For how to pay the fee and register for the banquet, stay tuned for an email from the organizers.