Convex hypersurface theory in higher-dimensional contact topology

Name: Convex hypersurface theory in higher-dimensional contact topology
Start: 2019-11-01T15:30:00-04:00
End: 2019-11-01T16:30:00-04:00
Location: Science Center 507

SEMINARS: GAUGE THEORY AND TOPOLOGY, SEMINARS: SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY

When: November 1, 2019

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Where: Science Center 507

Address: 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States

Speaker: Ko Honda - UCLA

Convex surface theory and bypasses are extremely powerful tools for analyzing contact 3-manifolds. In particular they have been successfully applied to many classification problems. After briefly reviewing convex surface theory in dimension three, we explain how to generalize many of their properties to higher dimensions. This is joint work with Yang Huang.