The symplectic sum of two Lefschetz fibrations. (Image courtesy of Prof. Denis Auroux.)
Prof. Denis Auroux
18.966
Spring 2007
Graduate
This is a second-semester graduate course on the geometry of manifolds. The main emphasis is on the geometry of symplectic manifolds, but the material also includes long digressions into complex geometry and the geometry of 4-manifolds, with special emphasis on topological considerations.