Research

On 11 May, 2010 I gave a talk for the Institut Mathématiques de Jussieu, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6 and Université Paris Diderot, Paris 7 at Chevaleret, for the Séminaire de Topologie.

On 7 May, 2010 I gave a talk at the Institut Camille Jordan in Lyon, France, for the Séminaire Géométries. The talk was entitled “Sutured Floer homology and contact-topological quantum field theory”.

On 22 April, 2010 I gave a talk at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, for the seminar on symplectic and contact geometry. The talk was entitled “Sutured Floer homology and contact-topological quantum field theory”.

On 7 April, 2010 I gave a talk at Micihgan State University, USA, for the 3- and 4-Manifold Seminar, entitled “Sutured topological quantum field theory and contact elements in sutured Floer homology”.

On 3 February, 2010 I gave a talk at Uppsala Universitet, Sweden. The talk was entitled “Chord diagrams, contact-topological quantum field theory, and contact categories”.

On 5 January, 2010 I gave a talk at the University of Melbourne, Australia, for the Algebra/Geometry/Topology Seminar. The talk was entitled “Chord diagrams and contact-topological quantum field theory”.

On 18 December, 2009 I gave two talks at the Institut Fourier in Grenoble, France. The first talk was entitled “Chord diagrams, contact-topological quantum field theory, and contact categories”. The second talk was entitled “Construction of hyperbolic cone-manifolds with prescribed

On 10 December, 2009 I gave a talk at the Université de Nantes, for the Séminaire de Topologie, Géométrie et Algèbre, entitled “Chord diagrams, contact-topological quantum field theory, and contact categories”.

On April 17, 2009 I gave a talk at Columbia University, for the Symplectic Geometry and Gauge Theory Seminar. Slides are available.