Title:Contact and symplectic geometry in low dimensions

Abstract: This series of talks will be about explaining some fundamental open problems in three-dimensional contact geometry. The first talk will be devoted to a gentle introduction to low dimensional contact and symplectic topology: some of the important problems that have been shaping much of current research, and then few essentials of contact geometry for those who has very little experience with them. In the subsequent talks we will gradually narrow our focus on the speaker’s current research, and progress he is making with his collaborators.