- Series
- Geometry Topology Student Seminar
- Time
- Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - 2:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Speaker
- Agniva Roy – Georgia Tech
- Organizer
- Hongyi (Hugo) Zhou
Finding fillings of contact structures is a question that has been studied extensively over the last few decades. In this talk I will discuss some motivations for studying this question, and then visit a few ideas involved in the earliest results, due to Eliashberg and McDuff, that paved the way for a lot of current research in this direction.