Primary Recipient

PITZER COLLEGE

Amount

$132,392.00

Award Date

6/16/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

Motivated by analogies with geometrically minimal surfaces, the PI recently introduced the notion of a topologically minimal surface in a 3-manifold. Such a surface has an associated disk complex that is either empty, or is non-contractible. Topologically