[geometry-ml:01801] Seminar at Kavli IPMU on 2013 July 4 Farris

[Satoshi Kondo]

Dear colleagues:

There will be a seminar as follows at Kavli IPMU
(Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of
the Universe).

Regards,

Satoshi Kondo (Kavli IPMU)
http://www.ipmu.jp/
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Speaker:David Farris (Indian Institute of Science)

Title:Embedded contact homology of circle bundles

Date:Thu, Jul 04, 2013, 15:15 - 17:45

Place:Seminar Room A

Abstract:
Embedded contact homology is a topological invariant of
three-manifolds (due to Hutchings), defined by choosing a contact
structure on a three-manifold and studying pseudoholomorphic curves in
its (four-dimensional) symplectization. It provides a link between
Seiberg-Witten gauge theory and contact geometry. We compute this
invariant for nontrivial circle bundles over Riemann surfaces
(prequantization spaces).

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