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Tuesday, September 15, 2009 - 5:00pm

Joan Licata

Stanford

Location

Temple University

Wachman Hall, Rm 617

In this talk I’ll introduce an invariant for Legendrian knots in lens spaces equipped with the universal tight contact structure. This invariant takes the form of a differential graded algebra and is closely related to Sabloff ’s invariant for Legendrian knots in the standard tight three-sphere. As partial motivation, I’ll explain the relationship between the knot theory of contact lens spaces and the Berge Conjecture.