The summer school is aimed at graduate students in low-dimensional topology. The goal is to make students familiar with the novel techniques in the field that have led to recent advances in our understanding of four-dimensional manifolds.

The program will consist of four mini-courses of 5 lectures each, all accompanied by discussion sessions:

1. Skein lasagna modules (by Mike Willis and Melissa Zhang)
2. Real Seiberg-Witten theory (by Hokuto Konno and Ian Montague)
3. Kontsevich invariants from configuration spaces (by Jianfeng Lin and Danica Kosanovic)
4. Lefschetz fibrations and closed exotic 4-manifolds (by Andras Stipsicz and Zoltan Szabo)