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SUMMARY:From Foliations to Contact Structures - Jonathan Bowden\, Munich
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CONTACT:Ivan Smith
DESCRIPTION: In the mid 90’s Eliashberg and Thurston established a funda
 mental link between the more classical theory of (smooth!) foliations and 
 that of contact topology in dimension 3\, which\, amongst other things\, p
 layed an important role in Mrowka and Kronheimer’s proof of Property P C
 onjecture. Their theory gains its potency from the fact that Gabai gave a 
 powerful method for constructing (smooth) taut foliations from on (irreduc
 ible) 3-manifolds from non-trivial homology classes. \n\nOn the other hand
  most foliations that occur in nature via (pseudo)-Anosov flows\, surgery\
 , gluing\, blows ups... are not smooth in general. This naturally motivate
 s the need to apply Eliashberg and Thurston’s theory to foliations of lo
 wer regularity. In this talk I will report on how (and hopefully why) thei
 r theory generalises. Time permitting I will discuss some applications and
  related questions.
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