Grant: THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC
Primary Recipient
THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC
Amount
$140,456.00
Award Date
7/13/2009
Administering Agency
CDFA Number
47.082
CDFA Program Title
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support
Description
Auroux-Donaldson-Katzarkov discovered a startlingly simple picture of smooth non-negative-definite 4-manifolds, generalizing Donaldson's interpretation of symplectic 4-manifolds as Lefschetz pencils. They view a 4-manifold, after blowing it up, as the tot