Dishant Pancholi
IMSc, Chennai
Dishant M. Pancholi is a Professor at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai. He obtained his Ph.D. from the School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, in 2007. His research interests lie in the geometry and topology of contact and symplectic manifolds. A recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (2019) and the B. M. Birla Science Prize (2018), he has held visiting positions at IAS Princeton, ICTP Trieste, and ICMAT Madrid. His contributions have advanced understanding in symplectic and contact topology.
Session 2C: Lectures by Fellows/Associates
Chairperson: K. N. Raghavan, Krea University, Sri City
Embeddings of 4-manifolds in ₵P1 × ₵P1 × ₵P1
We discuss embeddings of 4-manifolds in co-dimension 2. In particular, we show that every closed orientable smooth 4-manifold embeds in ₵P1 × ₵P1 × ₵P1.