“Lower bounds for Heegaard genus, after Lackenby”

Seminar: 
Special Tea
Event time: 
Friday, September 25, 2009 - 10:15am to 11:30am
Location: 
Seminar Room-431DL
Speaker: 
Andrew Casson
Speaker affiliation: 
Yale University
Event description: 

Prof. Andrew Casson will give a guest lecture in Lubotzky’s course in which he will explain the result of Lackenby relating Heegard genus of 3-manifold with the Cheeger invariant (property ‘tau’ and expanders).