IWoAT Summer School 2023 is a six-day event which will take place at Yanqi Lake Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications in Beijing, China from August 14 to August 19, 2023. The topic of the summer school is “Operads, spectra, and multiplicative structures.” The summer school is jointly sponsored by Yanqi Lake Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications and ...
Introduction:This is a mini lecture on 4-manifold theory. It will cover topics in 4-dimensional topology including: handlebodies of smooth 4-manifolds, constructing exotic 4-manifolds and exotic surfaces, fundamental pieces of 4-manifolds (corks, anticorks and plugs) , slice genus and shake slice genus. Several important conjectures will also be discussed