Koç University, Mathematics Seminar

Date & Time: Thursday, April 02, 16:00-17:00

Place: CASE-124

 

Speaker: Çağrı Karakurt (Boğaziçi University)

 

Title:  How to visualize 3-manifolds

 

Abstract: In order to "see" three dimensional manifolds, a topologist often represents them with lower dimensional objects.  I am going to talk about various different ways of representing 3-manifolds such as  Heegaard diagrams, Dehn surgeries, open books and branched covers. Along the way, I'll also mention some of the related open problems in 3-manifold topology.