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SUMMARY:An introduction to Floer theory - Alexia Corradini\, University of
  Cambridge
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CONTACT:Alexis Marchand
DESCRIPTION:Modern symplectic topology owes its most important and powerfu
 l tool\, known as Floer theory\, to Gromov’s pseudo-holomorphic curve th
 eory. In the late 80s\, Floer introduced an infinite-dimensional analogue 
 of Morse homology defined using counts of pseudo-holomorphic strips with b
 oundaries on a Lagrangian. In suitable settings\, this recovers the homolo
 gy of the Lagrangian.\n\nThis talk is an introduction to Floer theory\; I 
 will go through its basic constructions\, illustrate with some simple exam
 ples\, and hopefully convey some of its appeal.
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