Contact topology seminar.

Friday

Weekly Schedule.

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Week Dates Topics Sections Time Room Speaker
2 Aug 30 Contact topology in 3-dimension M Ch1, Ch2 2:00-3:00 Skiles 006 Min
3 Sep 6 Convex surfaces, Liouviile manifolds M Ch2, Av Sec2 1:00-2:00 Skiles 006 Min
3 Sep 13 Liouville manifolds, contact handles Av Sec3 1:00-2:00 Skiles 171 Min
5 Sep 20 Contact handles, Legendrian sums HH18, Sec4 1:00-2:00 Skiles 114 or 202Min
6 Sep 27 Bypass attachments HH18, Sec5,6 1:00-2:00 Skiles 006 Agniva
7 Oct 4 Bypass attachments, examples HH18, Sec7 1:00-1:50 Skiles 202 Agniva
8 Oct 11 C-folds in 3-dimension HH19, Sec2~4 1:00-2:00 Skiles 006
9 Oct 18 C-folds in high dimension HH19, Sec5,8 1:00-2:00 Skiles 006
10 Oct 25 C0-approximation by convex surfaces HH19, Sec10 1:00-2:00 Skiles 006
11 Nov 1 Stabilization of open books HH19, Sec6,11 1:00-2:00 Skiles 006
12 Nov 8 Contact embedding HH19, Sec12 1:00-2:00 Skiles 006
13 Nov 15 Legendrian Whitney trick CPP, Sec2 1:00-2:00 Skiles 006 Sudipta
14 Nov 22 Legendrian Whitney trick CPP, Sec3 1:00-2:00 Skiles 006 Sudipta

Resources.

Convex surfaces in contact geometry, John Etnyre

Topological methods in 3-dimensional contact geometry, Patrick Massot

Bypass attachments in higher-dimensional contact topology, Ko Honda and Yang Huang

Convex hypersurface theory in contact topology, Ko Honda and Yang Huang

The Legendrian Whitney trick, Roger Casals, Dishant Pancholi and Francisco Presas

5-dimensional Bourgeois contact structures are tight, Jonathan Bowden, Fabio Gironella and Agustin Moreno

Weak and strong fillability of higher dimensional contact manifolds, Patrick Massot, Klaus Niederkrüger and Chris Wendl

Liouville hypersurfaces and connect sum cobordisms, Russell Avdek