Speaker: 

Ko Honda

Institution: 

UCLA

Time: 

Tuesday, November 20, 2018 - 4:00pm

Location: 

RH 306

Convex surface theory and bypasses are extremely powerful tools
for analyzing contact 3-manifolds.  In particular they have been
successfully applied to many classification problems.  After reviewing
convex surface theory in dimension three,  we explain how to generalize many
of their properties to higher dimensions.   This is joint work with Yang
Huang.