Title: Foliations, laminations and branched surfaces in 3-manifolds
Tao Li (Oklahoma State U.)
Friday, February 6 at 11am in Mathematics 507.
Abstract:
We will give a survey of geometric methods used in the theory of
foliations and laminations in 3-manifolds and their connection with
3-manifold topology and knot theory. We will also discuss the proof of
some recent theorems and open questions.