[Binghamton Geometry Topology Seminar] This week: Hyunki Min

[jwilliams at math.binghamton.edu]

We will meet as usual Thursday, April 25 at 2:50pm in WH 100E. Everyone is
invited to C4 for lunch at noon and to dinner that night at 6, location
tba.

Speaker: Hyunki Min (Georgia Tech)

Title: Contact structures on hyperbolic manifolds

Abstract: There are two basic questions in contact topology: Which
manifolds admit tight contact structures, and on those that do, can we
classify tight contact structures? There have been a lot of studies for
many prime manifolds, especially for Seifert fibrations and toroidal
manifolds. In this talk, we present such a classification on an infinite
family of hyperbolic 3-manifolds. This is a joint work with James Conway.