Event time:
Thursday, March 6, 2008 - 11:30am to Wednesday, March 5, 2008 - 7:00pm
Location:
431 DL
Speaker:
Ko Honda
Speaker affiliation:
USC
Event description:
We describe an invariant of a contact 3-manifold with convex
boundary as an element of Juh’asz’s sutured Floer homology. Our
invariant generalizes the contact invariant in Heegaard Floer homology
in the closed case, due to Ozsv’ath and Szab’o.