Speaker
Michael Landry (St. Louis University)
Date
Tue, May 13 2025, 4:00pm
Location
383N
Abstract: A famous unpublished theorem of Gabai and Mosher from the 90s states that every taut, finite depth foliation of a closed, oriented, atoroidal 3-manifold is almost transverse to a pseudo-Anosov flow. I will discuss the construction, and a slight refinement that is joint work in progress with Chi Cheuk Tsang. I will also motivate the construction by discussing some open questions about the Thurston norm on second real homology.