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Trisections of 3-manifolds

Student-Run Geometry/Topology Seminar

Speaker: Dale Koenig, UC Davis
Location: 1147 MSB
Start time: Wed, Nov 30 2016, 2:10PM

I will give an introduction to the theory of decomposing 3-manifolds into 3 handlebodies. I will focus on examples, and will describe connections to the Heegaard genus.