MSRI Evans Lecture Series: "Symplectic aspects of Stein manifolds"
Mon, December 7, 2009 4:10PM - 5:00PM
| Time: | 4:10PM - 5:00PM |
| Location: | University of California, Berkeley |
| Speakers: | Kai Cieliebak, Kai Cieliebak |
| Abstract: | Stein manifolds are affine complex manifolds; their study has been a classical subject of complex analysis for the past century. The field took a surprising turn in the 1990ies when Y. Eliashberg used symplectic methods to achieve a topological characterization of Stein manifolds. Recent progress in symplectic topology has led to the discovery of exotic Stein structures on $C^n$. In the converse direction, work of S. Donaldson has exhibited Stein manifolds as the central building blocks for closed symplectic manifolds. |
