Joint IAS/Princeton University Symplectic Geometry Seminar

Stein fillings of cotangent bundles of surfaces

I'll outline recent results with Steven Sivek classifying the Stein fillings, up to topological homotopy equivalence, of the canonical contact structure on the unit cotangent bundle of a surface. The proof begins with Li, Mak and Yasui's technology for Calabi-Yau caps.

Date & Time

April 07, 2016 | 9:45am – 10:45am

Location

S-101

Speakers

Jeremy van Horn Morris

Affiliation

University of Arkansas

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