Program of the lectures

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Stefan Friedl - Virtual fibering for 3-manifolds

Additional material: Paper Friedl-Kitayama

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Burak Ozbagci - Topology of symplectic fillings of contact 3-manifolds

Lecture 1: Generalities on Symplectic/Stein and contact manifolds in arbitrary dimensions
Lecture 2: Complex dimension 2: Stein surfaces, contact 3-manifolds, Dehn surgery, contact surgery, Legendrian handlebody diagrams
Lecture 3: Lefschetz fibrations on Stein surfaces and open books
Lecture 4: Contact 3-manifolds admitting finitely many fillings
Lecture 5: Contact 3-manifolds admitting infinitely many fillings

Lectures Notes Cluj

Additional material: Survey paper Ozbagci Simons Center Lectures Simons Center Video

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Mustafa Korkmaz - Mapping class groups: presentations, representations and relations with symplectic manifolds

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Norbert A'Campo - Singularities, Low-Dimensional Topology and Galois action.

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