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MSRI Evans Lecture Series: "Constructing open symplectic manifolds via Lefschetz fibration" February 08, 2010
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Location: UC Berkeley, 60 Evans Hall
Speaker(s) Paul Seidel
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Lefschetz fibrations give a simple way of constructing a lot of examples of open symplectic manifolds. There are some surprises along the way, and also issues which are still poorly understood.

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