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Graduate Student Geometry-Topology Seminar

Wednesday, December 3, 2008 - 1:00pm

Shea Vela-Vick

Penn

Location

University of Pennsylvania

4C8 DRLB

In this talk, I'll introduce several new invariants of Legendrian and transverse links coming from Heegaard Floer homology. After discussing some properties and relationships shared by these invariants, I'll talk about applications to open book decompositions of contact 3-manifolds.