Local organizing committee: Michael Entov,
Michael Polyak, Michah Sageev The workshop's aim is to introduce graduate and
advanced undergraduate students to a variety of subjects centered around the
study of knots, links and braids. The required prerequisites are familiarity
with the basic material taught in undergraduate courses in mathematics. Unfortunately, we won't be able to cover travel
expenses of the workshop participants. We do have very limited funds to cover
participants' local expenses and we can also assist the participants with
finding accomodation in Haifa. In order to register for the workshop, please
fill out the registration
form and send it to Why "DOT" Knot "DOT" 09"AT" gmail "DOT"com (replace
"DOT" and "AT" by the appropriate symbols) by 1 August 2009. For further
information please contact the organizers at the above email address.Why Knot?
The mathematics of knots, links and braids
Workshop for graduate and advanced undergraduate
students
6-10 September 2009, Technion, Haifa (Israel)
The talks will be given by Dorit Aharonov (Hebrew U.), Michael Entov (Technion),
Cameron Gordon (U. of Texas, Austin), Ruth Lawrence (Hebrew U.),
Vladimir Lin (Technion), Yoav Moriah (Technion), Tahl Nowik (Bar-Ilan U.), Peter Ozsvath
(Columbia U.), Michael Polyak (Technion), Uzi Vishne
(Bar-Ilan U.) and Barak Weiss (Ben-Gurion U.). All the lectures will be held in the Amado Building (where the
Technion Math Department is located). A detailed workshop program will be
published later.
Getting to the Technion:
Transportation from the Airport to Haifa:
A shuttle run by "Amal Taxi Co." provides transportation from Ben-Gurion Airport to Haifa. The cost is about 60 Israeli Shekels (about $15) and the service is available around the clock.
There is a train from the airport to Haifa: schedule, fares. Your departure station is "Ben-Gurion Airport", and your destination station is "Hof Ha-Carmel". Upon arriving in Haifa, you will need to take a taxi from the train station to your hotel; the day fare is about 50 Israeli Shekels. Please be advised that the train does not run from Friday afternoon until approx. 20:00 on Saturday night.
Taxi from the Airport to Haifa will cost about $80 (night fare is higher).