Seminars and Colloquia by Series

Embeddings of manifolds and contact manifolds II

Series
Geometry Topology Working Seminar
Time
Friday, October 24, 2014 - 14:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 005
Speaker
John Etnyre – Georgia Tech
This is the second of several talks discussing embeddings of manifolds. I will discuss some general results for smooth manifolds, but focus on embeddings of contact manifolds into other contact manifolds. Particular attention will be paid to embeddings of contact 3-manifolds in contact 5-manifolds. I will discuss two approaches to this last problem that are being developed jointly with Yanki Lekili.

Embeddings of manifolds and contact manifolds I

Series
Geometry Topology Working Seminar
Time
Friday, October 10, 2014 - 14:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
John Etnyre – Georgia Tech
This is the first of several talks disussing embeddings of manifolds. I will discuss some general results for smooth manifolds, but focus on embeddings of contact manifolds into other contact manifolds. Particular attentaion will be payed to embeddings of contact 3-manifolds in contact 5-manifolds. I will discuss two approaches to this last problem that are being developed jointly with Yanki Lekili.

Fibrations, foliations and sutured manifolds

Series
Geometry Topology Working Seminar
Time
Friday, October 11, 2013 - 14:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
John Etnyre – Georgia Tech
In this talk we will extend the sutured product disk decompositions from the last talk to construct foliations on some knot complements and see how this can help understand the minimal genus of Seifert surfaces for knots and links.

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