Title: Contact structures: fillings, knots, and surgery
Speaker: James Conway
Speaker Info: UC Berkeley
Brief Description: Pretalk
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Abstract:
In this talk, I will give an introduction to contact 3-manifolds and their symplectic fillings. We will explore some ways of constructing new contact manifolds from old ones via surgery on Legendrian and transverse knots.Date: Thursday, February 22, 2018