Bahar Acu
Poster of 2012 Women in Math Program at IAS, Princeton
I am primarily interested in the topology and geometry of higher-dimensional contact and
symplectic manifolds and their interactions with several theories such as symplectic
field theory and mapping class group theory.
Publications & Preprints:
(7) Symplectic mapping class group relations generalizing the chain relation
Internat. J. Math., [Journal], [arXiv] (Joint w/ R. Avdek)
(6) Planarity in higher-dimensional contact manifolds
Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN, [Journal], [arXiv] (Joint w/ A. Moreno)
(5) Contact open books and symplectic Lefschetz fibrations
Advances in Mathematical Sciences, [Journal]
(4) An introduction to Weinstein handlebodies for complements of smoothed toric divisors
(Joint w/ O. Capovilla-Searle, A. Gadbled, A. Marinković, E. Murphy, L. Starkston, and A. Wu) [Journal], [arXiv]
Proceedings of the Research Collaboration Conference for Women in Symplectic Geometry and Contact Topology, to appear.
(3) The Weinstein conjecture for iterated planar contact structures
Submitted. [arXiv]
(2) Generalizations of planar contact manifolds to higher dimensions
Submitted. [arXiv] (Joint w/ J. B. Etnyre and B. Ozbagci)
(1) Weinstein handlebodies for complements of smoothed toric divisors
(Joint w/ O. Capovilla-Searle, A. Gadbled, A. Marinković, E. Murphy, L. Starkston, and A. Wu) Submitted. [arXiv]
(0) On foliations of higher-dimensional symplectic manifolds and symplectic mapping class group relations, PhD Thesis, 2017.
Edited Books
Editoral Board: B. Acu, D. Danielli, M. Lewicka, A. N. Pati, Saraswathy RV, M. I. Teboh-Ewungkem
Translation:
Translation to English: Contact Geometry: From Dimension Three to Higher Dimensions
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Awards & Honors in Research:
Research & Travel Grants
Atilim Geometry Topology Workshop, 2015
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Upcoming Talks
Invited Research Talks
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I co-organized Geometry&Physics seminar at Northwestern University from 2018 - 2020.
In Fall 2014, I organized the Graduate Joint LA Geometry and Topology
Seminar which gathered graduate students studying geometry and topology
at Caltech, UCLA and USC.
In Fall 2013 and Spring 2014, I was the organizer of Graduate Geometry
Topology Seminar at USC.
Seminar Talks at UCLA
Seminar Talks at USC
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Miscellaneous: