EVENT DETAILS AND ABSTRACT


Topology Seminar

Title: Dehn surgery, combinatorial methods, and Floer homology
Speaker: Joshua Greene
Speaker Info: Boston College
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Abstract:

I will discuss some of the major problems and results pertaining to Dehn surgery, with a highlight on the application of combinatorial methods and Heegaard Floer homology. In particular, I will report on progress on two guiding conjectures, the cabling conjecture and the Berge conjecture.
Date: Thursday, December 4, 2014
Time: 4:00pm
Where: Lunt 105
Contact Person: Ezra Getzler
Contact email: getzler@northwestern.edu
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