Intro to contact topology

This summer (2021) Kai Nakamura and I are organizing a week-long Summer Mini-Course (SMC) at UT.

Suggested online references

1. Introductory lectures on contact geometry (Etnyre)

2. Course notes written by George Torres (Gompf)

3. Legendrian and transversal knots (Etnyre)

4. Lectures on open book decompositions and contact structures (Etnyre)

5. Contact structures and classifications of legendrian and transverse knots (Starkston)

6. Lectures on contact geometry in low-dimensional topology (Etnyre)

7. Problems in low-dimensional topology (Etnyre -Ng)

Books

1. An introduction to contact topology (Geiges)

2. Surgery on contact manifolds; especially Ch 4 (Ozbagci-Stipsicz)