Federico Salmoiraghi (Queen's University)

Date

Monday October 30, 2023
11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Location

Jeffery Hall, Room 319

Dynamics, Geometry and Groups Seminar

Monday, October 30th, 2023

Time: 11:00 a.m.  Place: Jeffery Hall, Room 319

Speaker: Federico Salmoiraghi (Queen's University)

Title: Contact structures, open books and Heegaard Floer homology

Abstract: Hegaard Floer homology is a package of powerful algebraic invariant for 3-manifolds. After giving the necessary background we will see some application of Heegaard Floer theory to 3-dimensional contact geometry.