- Series
- Geometry Topology Seminar
- Time
- Tuesday, June 15, 2010 - 3:30pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 171
- Speaker
- Andy Wand – Berkeley and Max Planck Institute
- Organizer
- John Etnyre
I will describe some results concerning factorizations ofdiffeomorphisms of compact surfaces with boundary. In particular, Iwill describe a refinement of the well-known \emph{right-veering}property, and discuss some applications to the problem ofcharacterization of geometric properties of contact structures interms of monodromies of supporting open book decompositions.