About: On August 1-5, 2022, Boston College will host an in-person learning workshop for early career mathematicians on Big Mapping Class Groups, titled "Big MCGs at BC". All graduate students and postdocs interested in low-dimensional topology are invited to register using the link below.

Big MCGs are the topological symmetry groups of surfaces with infinite genus and/or infinitely many punctures. Here is a survey of some recent work on them, and a list of open problems.

Format: Each participant will be assigned a paper on Big MCGs to read in advance of the workshop. They will write up a 1-5 page exposition of the paper, and then give a 1 hour talk about it at the workshop. We expect around 18 participants/talks, on a variety of topics in and around Big MCGs.

Registration: Please use this form. For full consideration, please register by June 1. Travel funding is available.

Organizers: Ian Biringer (Boston College), Jing Tao (University of Oklahoma), Nicholas Vlamis (CUNY).

Inquiries about the workshop can be sent to ian.biringer@bc.edu.

Travel Information: Boston College (BC) is in Chestnut Hill, MA, a western suburb of Boston. Participants should fly into Boston Logan Airport, or take an Amtrak train into Back Bay Station. The hotel is the AC Hotels by Marriott in Cleveland Circle, which is a 15 minute walk from the BC math department. The hotel is the last stop on the Green Line C of the T, which is the local metro.

Talk Schedule: You can access the talk schedule here. All talks will all be held at Boston College, in Maloney 560. Here is how to find Maloney Hall. If you go up to the 5th floor and enter the double doors to the math department, 560 will be directly in front of you.