Confoliations and contact structures on higher dimensions

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar
Time
Monday, September 14, 2009 - 2:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 269
Speaker
Dishant M. Pancholi – International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
Organizer
John Etnyre
After reviewing a few techniques from the theory of confoliation in dimension three we will discuss some generalizations and certain obstructions in extending these techniques to higher dimensions. We also will try to discuss a few questions regarding higher dimensional confoliations.