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Claremont Topology Seminar: Joe Breen (University of Iowa)
April 23, 2024 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
We especially welcome all undergraduates and graduate students to attend topology seminar!
Speaker: Joe Breen (University of Iowa)
Title: Open books in all dimensions
Abstract: I will discuss recent work (joint with K. Honda and Y. Huang) on establishing a relationship, first discovered by Giroux, between “contact structures” and “open books”. This relationship has been widely used in 3-dimensional contact topology, and mathematicians are beginning to investigate the consequences in higher-dimensional contact topology. No background knowledge of contact topology or open book decompositions will be assumed. I will even motivate why higher-dimensional contact topology could be useful for questions in low-dimensional topology.