John Etnyre

At IAS, John Etnyre will focus on invariants of knots and 3-manifolds using the “co-normal construction” and contact homology. He also will study transverse contact embeddings of contact 3-manifolds into contact 5-manifolds (which should be thought of as a higher-dimensional analogue of the study of transverse knots in contact 3-manifolds) and connections between Riemannian geometry and contact geometry.