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Intro Talk - Heegaard-Floer Homology
Student-Run Geometry/Topology Seminar| Speaker: | Eugene Gorsky, UC Davis |
| Location: | 2112 MSB |
| Start time: | Tue, Oct 6 2015, 11:00AM |
Heegaard Floer homology is a powerful invariant of knots and 3-manifolds, defined by Ozsvath and Szabo. I will briefly outline the construction of the Heegaard Floer homology and some of its applications to 3- and 4- dimensional topology.