GT seminar: Transverse stabilization in dim>3 contact topology

Abstract: We'll define stabilization for codim=2 contact manifolds of dim>3 contact manifolds so that a contact manifold is overtwisted iff its
"standard contact unknot" is a stabilization. The talk will outline a
proof that for n>1 there are two (smoothly unknotted) embedding of the
standard contact 2n-1 sphere into the standard contact 2n+1 sphere which are formally contact isotopic, but which are not contact isotopic.

This is a talk in our geometry and topology seminar series.