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Penn Mathematics Colloquium

Wednesday, November 7, 2007 - 4:30pm

Yasha Eliashberg

Stanford University

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL A6

An affine (Stein) complex manifold has a canonical symplectic structure, which is crucial for understanding the homotopy classification of Stein complex structures on a given smooth manifold. In the talk we will discuss how to define and compute symplectic invariants which may distinguish these structures.