Brandeis-Harvard-MIT-Northeastern

JOINT MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM


 
Heegaard diagrams and invariants for three-manifolds

 

Zoltan Szabo

Princeton University
 

Harvard University

Thursday, March 19, 2009


 

Talk at 4:30 p.m. in Science Center D

Tea at 4:00 p.m. in the Math Lounge


 
 

Abstract:   This talk will give an introduction to Heegaard Floer homology for closed oriented three-dimensional manifolds. After describing the construction we will discuss applications and also some techniques to compute Heegaard Floer homology.


 

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Posted: March 3, 2009    URL: http://www.math.neu.edu/bhmn/szabo09.html