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Geometry-Topology Seminar

Thursday, October 27, 2005 - 4:30pm

Lisa Traynor

Bryn Mawr College and the University of Pennsylvania

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4C8

Torus links are topological links that can be arranged so that they lie on the surface of a standardly embedded solid torus. Legendrian torus links are topological torus links that satisfy an extra geometrical condition imposed by a contact structure. Etnyre and Honda classified Legendrian torus knots. I will discuss work by Jennifer Dalton and myself on the classification of Legendrian torus links.