Joint IAS/Princeton University Symplectic Geometry Seminar
Small symplectic and exotic 4-manifolds via positive factorizations
We will discuss new ideas and techniques for producing positive Dehn twist factorizations of surface mapping classes (joint work with Mustafa Korkmaz) which yield novel constructions of interesting symplectic and smooth 4-manifolds, such as small symplectic Calabi-Yau surfaces and exotic rational surfaces, via Lefschetz fibrations and pencils.
Date & Time
April 28, 2016 | 10:30am – 11:30am
Location
Fine 1201, Princeton UniversitySpeakers
R. İnanç Baykur
Affiliation
University of Massachusetts, Amherst