Floer Homology





Juvitop, Topology Topics Seminar
Spring 2007


Wednesdays 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Room 2-139



Schedule of Talks:


       April 11, 2007:     Veronique Godin
                                
"From Morse Theory to Floer Homology" 

      
April 18, 2007:      Matt Gelvin
                                   "Introduction to Heegaard Floer Homology"

      April 25, 2007:      Matt Hedden
                                   "First Computations of Heegaard Floer Homology"

      May 2, 2007:         Brett Parker
                                   "Gromov Compactness"

     
May 9, 2007:         Veronique Godin
                                   "A-Infinity Categories and Morse Theory of Finite Dimensional Manifolds"

      May 16, 2007:       Mohammed Abouzaid
                                   "The Fukaya Category of the Cotangent Bundle of a Smooth Manifold"








References:
  • A survery article by Dusa McDuff.
  • Various notes on Heegaard Floer homology.
  • Two articles (here and here) by Abbondandolo and Schwarz on the correspondence between the homology of the free loop space on M and
    the Floer homology of the cotangent bundle of M.
  • An article by Peter Kronheimer and Ciprian Manolescu.
  • Two articles (here and here) on Fukaya categories by Paul Seidel.