Toric Manifolds - Four Dimensions from Two

Series
Geometry Topology Student Seminar
Time
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 - 2:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Jamie Conway – Georgia Tech
Organizer
James Conway
We will investigate a method of "seeing" properties of four dimensional symplectic spaces by looking at two dimensional pictures. We will see how to calculate the Euler characteristic, identify embedded surfaces, see intersection numbers, and how to see induced contact structures on the boundary of these manifolds.