| Members Seminar | |
| Topic: | Bordered Floer Homology |
| Speaker: | Peter Ozsvath |
| Affiliation: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Date: | Monday, November 21 |
| Time/Room: | 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101 |
Bordered Floer homology is an invariant for three-manifolds with boundary (or, more precisely, three-manifolds with parameterized boundary), constructed using pseudo-holomorphic curve techniques. The theory associates to a marked surface a differential graded algebra, and to a three-manifold whose boundary is identified with the surface a graded module over that algebra. Closed three-manifold invariants (a version of Heegaard Floer homology) can be computed via a "pairing theorem" which is formulated via a derived tensor product. This is joint work with Robert Lipshitz and Dylan Thurston.