Title of Seminar: Infosys Chandrasekharan Random Geometry Colloquium
Title of Talk: Introduction to foliations on 3-manifolds
Speaker: Sekh Kiran Ajij, TIFR, Mumbai
Date: March 26, 2024
Time: 16:00:00 Hours
Venue: A-369
Abstract: Foliations are decomposition of a manifold by connected, non empty, immersed submanifolds. They are in a sense, opposite to contact structures where the 2-plane fields are everywhere integrable. In the talk, I will introduce foliations and a few examples. We will also show that every closed oriented 3-manifold admits a codimension-1 foliation. We will also introduce a special class of foliations called taut foliations and some motivation behind studying them.
Title of Talk: Introduction to foliations on 3-manifolds
Speaker: Sekh Kiran Ajij, TIFR, Mumbai
Date: March 26, 2024
Time: 16:00:00 Hours
Venue: A-369
Abstract: Foliations are decomposition of a manifold by connected, non empty, immersed submanifolds. They are in a sense, opposite to contact structures where the 2-plane fields are everywhere integrable. In the talk, I will introduce foliations and a few examples. We will also show that every closed oriented 3-manifold admits a codimension-1 foliation. We will also introduce a special class of foliations called taut foliations and some motivation behind studying them.