Plan for weeks 19-21 -- updated

Tue May 7:

Sections 3.2-3.4  in Geiges "Contact Geometry".

Thu May 9:

Open books and Lefschetz fibrations, following Geiges "Contact Geometry" Section 3.5.1 and Sections 2.2-2.3 in https://www.mathematik.hu-berlin.de/~wendl/SFT8/Courte_precourse.pdf by Sylvain Courte.

Tue May 14:

More on Lefschetz fibrations, following Sections 3-5 of Exotic symplectic manifolds from Lefschetz fibrations by Maksim Maydanskiy.

Thu May 16:

TIght and overtwisted, Section 3.6 and 3.7 in Geiges "Contact Geometry".

Tue May 21:
Cancelled due to  this seminar 

Thu May 23:

The Weinstein conjecture, following Section 1-3 in Taubes's proof of the Weinstein conjecture in dimension three by Michael Hutchings.

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