- Series
- Geometry Topology Student Seminar
- Time
- Wednesday, February 15, 2017 - 2:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 006
- Speaker
- Surena Hozoori – Georgia Tech
- Organizer
- Justin Lanier
In this talk, I will define Conley-Zehnder index of a periodic Reeb
orbit and will give several characterizations of this invariant.
Conley-Zehnder index plays an important role in computing the dimension
of certain families of J-holomorphic curves in the symplectization of a
contact manifold.