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Tight contact structures on lens spaces
Student-Run Geometry/Topology Seminar| Speaker: | Austin Christian, UCLA |
| Location: | MSB 3106 |
| Start time: | Tue, Oct 8 2019, 11:00AM |
With the ulterior motive of providing background for this afternoon's talk, we'll discuss a construction of tight contact structures on 3-dimensional lens spaces. A theorem of Honda says that this construction is exhaustive and, time permitting, we will observe that all of these structures admit exact symplectic fillings.