Obiettivo My main research interests are in low dimensional topology, symplectic geometry and gauge theory. Over the past 20 years, these fields has seen an explosion of activity due to its relevance to string theory.As part of my PhD thesis, I proved an equivalence between two 3-manifold invariants coming from Floer theory. These are Perutz's Lagrangian matching invariants and Ozsvath and Szabo's Heegaard Floer theory. Although, Heegaard Floer theory has been studied extensively, Lagrangian matching invariants is a relatively recent theory and it remains to be explored more thoroughly. The set-up of Lagrangian matching invariants gives more emphasis on symplectic techniques, and this offers a different approach to Heegaard Floer theory. My goal is to explore these invariants in more depth and bring in new symplectic techniques to the study of 3-manifolds. As a concrete project along these lines, I have been working with Perutz in extending these invariants to bordered three manifolds for which we apply techniques used in the study of Fukaya categories of symplectic manifolds. As a byproduct, we obtain categorical mapping class group actions.Another main part of my research is the study of Fukaya categories of Lefschetz fibration on the Hilbert schemes of the A_n type Milnor fibre, a special type quiver variety. This involves Floer theoretic calculations of non-compact Lagrangian submanifolds. The applications of this research has deep connections with conjectures involving the relation of the Fukaya category to geometric representation theory, in particular to Khovanov's combinatorial link invariants.In addition to the projects described above, I am interested in various structures in low dimensional topology. For example, I proved that every smooth 4-manifold admits a broken Lefschetz fibration. This gives a new calculus of 4-manifolds, which I plan to apply to solve old conjectures about 4-manifolds. Campo scientifico natural sciencesmathematicspure mathematicstopologysymplectic topologynatural sciencesmathematicspure mathematicsgeometrynatural sciencesmathematicspure mathematicsalgebraalgebraic geometry Programma(i) FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Argomento(i) FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG - Marie Curie Action: "Reintegration Grants" Invito a presentare proposte FP7-PEOPLE-2010-RG Vedi altri progetti per questo bando Meccanismo di finanziamento MC-IRG - International Re-integration Grants (IRG) Coordinatore KING'S COLLEGE LONDON Contributo UE € 33 333,33 Indirizzo STRAND WC2R 2LS London Regno Unito Mostra sulla mappa Regione London Inner London — West Westminster Tipo di attività Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Contatto amministrativo Paul Labbett (Mr.) Collegamenti Contatta l’organizzazione Opens in new window Sito web Opens in new window Costo totale Nessun dato Partecipanti (1) Classifica in ordine alfabetico Classifica per Contributo UE Espandi tutto Riduci tutto THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE Partecipazione conclusa Regno Unito Contributo UE € 66 666,67 Indirizzo TRINITY LANE THE OLD SCHOOLS CB2 1TN Cambridge Mostra sulla mappa Regione East of England East Anglia Cambridgeshire CC Tipo di attività Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Contatto amministrativo Keith Cann (Mr.) Collegamenti Contatta l’organizzazione Opens in new window Sito web Opens in new window Costo totale Nessun dato
