Federico Salmoiraghi (Queen's University)

Date

Friday November 4, 2022
10:00 am - 11:00 am

Location

Jeffery Hall, Room 422

Dynamics, Geometry and Groups Seminar

Friday, November 4th, 2022

Time: 10:00 a.m.  Place: Jeffery Hall, Room 422

Speaker: Federico Salmoiraghi (Queen's University)

Title: Floer theory and 3-dimensional topology

Abstract: Floer theory has drastically advanced our understanding of topology in dimension 3 and 4. In this talk we give an introduction to Morse homology and Lagrangian-Floer theory. The goal is to set the framework necessary to introduce Heegaard-Floer invariants and to describe some applications in low dimensional topology.