Speaker: 

Professor Andras Stipsciz

Institution: 

Renyi Mathematics Institute, Budapest and Columbia

Time: 

Tuesday, November 6, 2007 - 4:00pm

Location: 

MSTB 254

After discussing the basics of contact surgery in dimension 3, and introducing contact Ozsvath-Szabo invarinats, we show that a Seifert fibered 3-manifold does admit a positive tight contact structure unless it is orientation preserving diffeomorphic to the result of (2n-1)-surgery along the T(2,2n+1) torus knot (for some positive integer n).