Surface diagrams of smooth 4-manifolds

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar
Time
Monday, October 24, 2011 - 2:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 005
Speaker
Jonathan Williams – UGA
Organizer
John Etnyre
I will describe a new way to depict any smooth, closed oriented 4-manifold using a surface decorated with circles, along with a set of moves that relate any pair of such depictions.