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Geometry-Topology Seminar

Thursday, April 7, 2011 - 5:15pm

Lenhard Ng

Duke University

Location

Haverford College

KINSC H108

This is the second talk of the day in a joint seminar with Temple, Bryn Mawr and Haverford

Knot contact homology is a combinatorial Floer-theoretic knot invariant derived from Symplectic Field Theory. I'll discuss a filtered version of this invariant, transverse homology, which turns out to be a fairly effective invariant of transverse knots.