Symplectic Dirty Hands Seminar

“Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.” –Carl Jung

Welcome to the (preliminary) page of the Symplectic Dirty Hands seminar: Dehn-Twist edition.

General Information:

Our first meeting will be on 1st of November, where we will introduce the topic and discuss how to split the presentations and other technicalities.  More information soon to follow!

A zoom link (same every time) will be sent each week.  Email me  (n . adaloglou (at) math . leidenuniv . nl) if you want to be included :) 


Meetings: 



Method: 

We will aim to have a hybrid meeting scheme meaning  that we will have a zoom link but we encourage to meet in person, in the home university of the speaker. 

We plan to study Ailsa Keating's paper:

 Dehn twists and free subgroups of symplectic mapping class groups