Informal seminar: Surfaces in four-manifolds and the lightbulb theorem
Organizers: Kyle Hayden, Siddhi Krishna, and Patrick Orson
Time and location: Th 11:00-12:00, Maloney 560
Description: There is a Google doc with a big list of possible topics located here.
Some references (that will be updated/organized as we move forward):
The 4-Dimensional Light Bulb Theorem, Dave Gabai
The 4-Dimensional Light Bulb Theorem (after David Gabai), Bob Edwards
4-Manifolds and Kirby Calculus, Robert Gompf and András Stipsicz
Surfaces in 4-Space, Scott Carter, Seiichi Kamada, and Masahico Saito
What is... a Grope?, Peter Teicher
Branched Covers of Surfaces in 4-Manifolds, Selman Akbulut and Robion Kirby
Surfaces in D^4 with the same boundary and fundamental group, Takahiro Oba
Genus is superadditive under band connect sum, Dave Gabai
Property P for the Band Connect Sum of two knots, Abigail Thompson
Band-Sums are Ribbon Concordant to the Connect Sum, Katura Miyazaki
Smooth spheres in R^4 with four critical points are standard, Martin Scharlemann