- Series
- Research Horizons Seminar
- Time
- Wednesday, April 12, 2017 - 12:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 006
- Speaker
- Jen Hom – Georgia Tech
- Organizer
- Justin Lanier
Defined in the early 2000's by Ozsvath and Szabo,
Heegaard Floer homology is a package of invariants for three-manifolds,
as well as knots inside of them. In this talk, we will describe how work
from Poul Heegaard's 1898 PhD thesis,
namely the idea of a Heegaard splitting, relates to the definition of
this invariant. We will also provide examples of the kinds of questions
that Heegaard Floer homology can answer. These ideas will be the subject
of the topics course that I am teaching in
Fall 2017.