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Handle Decompositions of Manifolds and an Introduction to Kirby Calculus

Student-Run Geometry/Topology Seminar

Speaker: Dale Koenig, UC Davis
Location: 3106 MSB
Start time: Tue, Apr 19 2016, 11:00AM

I will give an introduction to handle decompositions of manifolds from Morse theory. I will explain how handle decompositions give rise to Kirby diagrams of 4-manifolds and of 3-manifolds, and will do some example computations with Kirby calculus.