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:
Introduction to the seminar & topic (Nikolas): 1st November 12:45 p.m.; VU Amsterdam, Maryam.
Dehn Twists; 15 November 13:00: Leiden, EM 1.17
Floer Homology & Fukaya Categories ; 6 December, Utrecht
A-∞ Algebras: CF(L,L); 13 December
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