Hello everyone,

We have seminar today. Amey Kaloti will be speaking on "Embedding questions for Weinstein and contact manifolds"

His title and abstract are below. Also, we will be taking Amey out for dinner tonight at hideaway. Meet at my office around 5:15 if you are interested in that.

Embedding questions for Weinstein and contact manifolds. Speaker: Amey Kaloti, University of Arkansas Date: Oct 23, 2018 Time: 2:30 PM Room: MSCS 405 Abstract: We describe a framework for embedding Weinstein 4-manifolds into Weinstein 6-manifolds using Lefschetz fibrations. The process also reframes the ”spun embeddings” of Etnyre and Lekili used to describe embeddings of contact 3-manifolds into contact 5-manifolds. We’ll discuss obstructions as well as examples including Weinstein 6-manifolds which contain all Weinstein 4-manifolds as properly embedded Weinstein submanifolds. Joint work with Jeremy Van Horn-Morris.

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Neil R. Hoffman Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics 523 Math Science Building Oklahoma State University Stillwater, OK 74078-1058 405-744-7791 http://math.okstate.edu/people/nhoffman