- Series
- Research Horizons Seminar
- Time
- Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - 12:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 005
- Speaker
- John Etnyre – Georgia Tech, School of Math – http://people.math.gatech.edu/~etnyre/
- Organizer
- Robert Krone
Contact geometry is a beautiful subject that has important
interactions with topology in dimension three. In this talk I will give a
brief introduction to contact geometry and discuss its interactions with
Riemannian geometry. In particular I will discuss a contact geometry analog
of the famous sphere theorem and more generally indicate how the curvature
of a Riemannian metric can influence properties of a contact structure
adapted to it.