Computing Heegaard Floer homology by factoring mapping classes

Series
Geometry Topology Student Seminar
Time
Wednesday, October 11, 2017 - 1:55pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Justin Lanier – Georgia Tech
Organizer
Jennifer Hom
We will discuss the mapping class groupoid, how it is generated by handle slides, and how factoring in the mapping class groupoid can be used to compute Heegaard Floer homology. This talk is based on work by Lipshitz, Ozsvath, and Thurston.