Exotic families of objects in four dimensions and parameterized gauge theory

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar
Time
Monday, September 23, 2024 - 2:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
David Auckly
Organizer
John Etnyre

There are many bizarre examples in the world of smooth 4-manifolds. We will describe some of these examples and discuss a tool from gauge theory that may be used to compute some of the invariants that distinguish these weird examples.