- Series
- Geometry Topology Student Seminar
- Time
- Wednesday, March 6, 2013 - 1:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 006
- Speaker
- Alan Diaz – Georgia Tech
- Organizer
- Alan Diaz
I'll discuss Plamenevskaya's invariant of transverse knots, how it can be used to determine tightness of contact structures on some 3-manifolds, and efforts to understand more about this invariant. This is an Oral Comprehensive Exam; the talk will last about 40 minutes.