| GEOMETRY/DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS | |
| Topic: | J-Curves in Degenerating Contact Manifolds |
| Speaker: | Joel Fish |
| Affiliation: | Stanford University |
| Date: | Wednesday, January 26 |
| Time/Room: | 4:00pm - 5:00pm/S-101 |
We will discuss some recent SFT-type compactness results for J-curves (i.e. pseudo-holomorphic curves) in the symplectization of a contact manifold which is stretched along a special hypersurface. This procedure is called "sideways stretching" and encompasses a variety of geometric degenerations of contact manifolds, including degenerating connected sums of contact manifolds as well as higher dimensional isotropic handle attaches.