Members’ Seminar
Heegaard Floer Homology, Khovanov Homology and Contact Geometry
I'll give a brief survey of Heegaard Floer homology, one of the latest and most powerful descendants of the Gauge theories of the 80's and 90's, and I'll discuss established and conjectured connections between Heegaard Floer homology and Khovanov homology. We'll see how some of these connections can be used to study contact geometry on 3-manifolds.
Date & Time
February 08, 2010 | 2:00pm – 3:00pm
Location
S-101Speakers
John Baldwin
Affiliation
Princeton University and Member, School of Mathematics