Paolo Ghiggini - Introduction to Heegaard Floer homology 3

Heegaard Floer homology is a powerful invariant of three manifolds introduced by Ozsváth and Szabó. In my course I will give an overview of its definition and of some of its properties following Lipshitz's "cylindrical reformulation" rather than Ozsvàth and Szabó's original presentation. Since this course is meant to be an introduction to Golla's and Watson's courses of the second week, the focus will be on foundations rather than applications.