College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Topology Seminar
Speaker:
Ali Daemi (Washington University, St Louis)
Topic:
Homology Cobordisms and Handle Decomposition II
Abstract:
In this talk we discuss how character varieties and instanton Floer homology can be used to obtain information about handle decomposition of homology cobordisms. Part of the motivation is a conjecture which is mentioned in the first part of the talk. Most of this talk is based on a joint work with Tye Lidman, Shea Vela-Vick, and Mike Wong.
Event Date:
November 7, 2019 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Location:
217 MLH
Calendar Category:
Seminar
Seminar Category:
Geometry and Topology