Exotic 4-Manifolds

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar Pre-talk
Time
Monday, January 29, 2024 - 12:45pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Adam Levine – Duke
Organizer
Jennifer Hom

A central theme in 4-dimensional topology is the search for exotic 4-manifolds, i.e. families of smooth manifolds that are homeomorphic not diffeomorphic. We will survey some basic results in this area.