Description: This course is intended as a first course on Foliation Theory and Contact Topology, especially in the setting of 3-dimensions, where important analogies were discovered by Eliashberg and Thurston in the late 90's.

Lecture time: Thursdays 14:15-16:00

Exercise Class: Friday 14:15-16:00.

Location: For the moment on Zoom: Meeting ID 917-9208-5225. Password: c???act

Some Preliminary Course Notes can be downloaded here. These will be updated regularly and may contain typos. Exercise sheets will be posted here.

Further Literatur: The following references may also be useful

• Introduction to Contact Topology, Hansjoerg Geiges
• Confoliations, Yakov Eliashberg and William Thurston
• Foliations and the Geometry of 3-Manifolds, Danny Calegari
• Foliations I/II, Alberto Candel and Lawrence Conlon
• K. Honda, Notes on Contact Geometry.