- Series
- School of Mathematics Colloquium
- Time
- Friday, December 8, 2023 - 4:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 006
- Speaker
- Dusa McDuff – Barnard College, Columbia
- Organizer
- John Etnyre
Please Note: This colloquium will also be the staring talk for the 2023 Tech Topology Conference.
This talk will give an elementary introduction to my joint work with Kyler Siegel that shows how cuspidal curves in a symplectic manifold X such as the complex projective plane determine when an ellipsoid can be symplectically embedded into X.