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Heegard-Floer homology part 1: The philosophy of Floer theory
Special Events| Speaker: | Dan Rutherford, UC Davis |
| Location: | 3106 MSB |
| Start time: | Mon, Apr 30 2007, 11:00AM |
Description
This will be the first of two talks on Oszvath and Szabo's invariant for
3-manifolds and knots which they have dubbed Heegard-Floer homology. The
aim of this first talk will be to give a sense of where the invariants
come. To begin I will discuss finite dimensional Morse theory and give a
sketch of Lagrangian Floer homology. The definition of the simplest of
the Heegard-Floer 3-manifold invariants is the goal for the end of this
talk.