4-manifolds reading seminar.

(Co-organizer: Anubhav Mukherjee)

Friday 2pm
Bluejeans link: https://bluejeans.com/265521947

Weekly Schedule.

Dates Topics Chapters Speaker Recordings
Aug 28 Introduction to Kirby calculus Ch 1 Anubhav
Sep 4 Introduction to Kirby calculus Ch 1 Anubhav link
Sep 11 Building 4-manifolds Ch 2 Min link
Sep 18 Building 4-manifolds Ch 2 Min link
Sep 25 Gluing 4-manifolds Ch3 Agniva link
Oct 2 Gluing 4-manifolds Ch 3 Agniva link
Oct 9 Gluck twists, Blow down Ch 6 Luya link
Oct 16 Exotic 4-manifolds Ch 6 Hugo link
Oct 23 Knot surgery, rational blowdown Ch 6 link
Oct 30 Log transformation, Luttinger surgery Ch 9
Nov 6 knot surgery Ch 9 link
Nov 13 Cork twists Ch 10 link
Nov 20 Cork twists Ch 10

Resources.

4-manifolds, Selman Akbulut; This is an incomplete version.

Lectures on handlebodies, John Etnyre

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