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Heegaard Splittings and Min-Max Theory

Student-Run Geometry/Topology Seminar

Speaker: Antoine Song, UC Berkeley
Location: 3106 MSB
Start time: Tue, Jan 21 2020, 11:00AM

We will review the notion of Heegaard splittings and some known results about them. Then we will give an introduction to the variational theory for minimal surfaces (in other words, min-max theory), and explain how it relates to Heegaard splittings.