Speaker:  Laura Starkston (University of California, Davis)

Title:  Multisections with Divides

Abstract:  I will introduce a new way of decomposing and diagrammatically encoding Weinstein 4-manifolds, called multisections with divides. We will talk about how this relates to other kinds of structures on Weinstein manifolds, and what new ideas may come out of this theory. This is based on joint work with Gabriel Islambouli.