Date: 16 September 2016, 4:30pm
Location: Hempfield High School, Room 213
 Speaker: Ziva Myer
   Title: A Product Structure for Generating Family Cohomology
   for Legendrians

   Abstract. The study of Legendrian submanifolds is central to
   the field of contact topology, and invariants of these submanifolds
   have been obtained through a variety of techniques. In my talk, I
   will discuss how I am extending one such invariant, Generating Family
   Cohomology, by constructing a product structure. The construction
   uses moduli spaces of Morse flow trees -- spaces of intersecting
   gradient trajectories of functions whose critical points encode Reeb
   chords of the Legendrian.