Date & Time: Wednessday, November 27, 2013, 11:30-12:30.
Venue: Ramanujan Hall
Speaker: Yakov Eliashberg, Stanford University
Title: Poincaré's rotation number and contact topology
Abstract:
I will discuss in the talk the contact-geometric interpretation of the notion of Poincaré's rotation number and its development in the modern contact topology.