Seminar series
Date
Mon, 12 May 2025
14:15
14:15
Location
L5
Speaker
Michael Schmalian
Organisation
Mathematical Institute (University of Oxford)
Contact topology and hyperbolic geometry are two well-established, yet so far largely unrelated subfields of 3-manifold topology. We will discuss a recent result relating phenomena in these two fields. Specifically, we will demonstrate that tightness of certain contact structures on hyperbolic manifolds is detected by the behaviour of geodesics in the underlying hyperbolic geometry. A key geometric tool we will discuss is the deformation theory for hyperbolic manifolds.