Summer school on Instanton gauge theory and applications to 3-manifolds topology
3-7 September 2018
University of Nantes

There will be a mini-course by Raphael Zentner, and a few other satellite talks.

Topics: Instanton gauge theory; talks will be on monopole Floer homology, Heegaard Floer homology, and applications to 3- and 4-manifold topology.

Schedule (tentative): All lectures will be held at the Department of Mathematics, in the Salle Éole. Lunch will be at the university cafeteria, but you're free to look for alternatives (you can ask me or the locals once you're here).

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
9:30-10:30	Lecture 1	Lecture 3	Lecture 5	Lecture 7	Lecture 9
10:30-11:00	Coffee break	Coffee break	Coffee break	Coffee break	Coffee break
11:00-12:00	Lecture 2	Lecture 4	Lecture 6	Lecture 8	Lecture 10
12:00-14:30	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
14:30-15:30	Larson	Celoria	Conway	Behrens*	Lecture 11
19:30-?			Conference dinner

* This will be a 90-minute talk. You will find titles and abstracts here.

Travel information: Nantes has an international airport, and a train station that is well connected to Paris. Note that Google Maps does not have data for local transportation within Nantes; you can look up bus and tram schedules on the TAN webpage, where you can also plan a trip. Notably, from the airport to the centre there are two options.

• The cheap option (1.70 EUR each way): take bus 48 to Neustrie (it only goes one way, so no chance of getting it wrong), and then tram 3 towards Marcel Paul (Neustrie is the end of the line, so there's no chance of getting this wrong either). This takes about 45 minutes to Commerce.
• The fast option (9.00 EUR each way): take the Navette Aéroport; this takes you to Commerce (via the train station and Lieu Unique, which are the only two intermediate stops). This takes about 20 minutes.

In both cases you can buy a ticket on board, and it remains valid for an hour.

Acknowledgments: We acknowledge support from Défimaths and CNRS.