Grid Homology

Series
Geometry Topology Student Seminar
Time
Wednesday, November 18, 2020 - 2:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
online
Speaker
Sally Collins
Organizer
Sarah (Sally) Collins

Grid homology is a purely combinatorial description of knot Floer homology in which the counting of psuedo-holomorphic disks is replaced with a counting of polygons in grid diagrams. This talk will provide an introduction to this theory, and is aimed at an audience with little to no experience with Heegaard Floer homology.