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Broken Dream Seminar: How to (not) mass produce taut foliations from contact structures May 15, 2026 (01:00 PM PDT - 02:00 PM PDT)
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Location: SLMath: Baker Board Room
Speaker(s) Thomas Massoni (Stanford University)
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During my PhD, I developed a program to construct (taut) foliations from pairs of (tight) contact structures, providing a converse to Eliashberg--Thurston's celebrated approximation theorem. While this technology works well at producing new taut foliations near old ones, I will present some failed attempts at using these tools to construct many more taut foliations. I will discuss the subtleties and obstructions in more detail in my subsequent talk in the 'Getting dirty with foliations' seminar.

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