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Topology of cell complexes and manifolds, classification of manifolds (e.g. smoothing, surgery), low dimensional topology (e.g. knot theory, invariants of 4-manifolds), embedding theory, combinatorial and PL topology, geometric group theory, infinite dimensional topology (e.g. Hilbert cube manifolds, theory of retracts).

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Introduction to Floer Theory?

I wholeheartedly agree with both of Chris Gerig's suggestions. The small McDuff-Salamon book on holomorphic curves ("J-holomorphic curves and quantum cohomology", available on McDuff's webpage) has a …
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Path of almost complex structure in the definition of Heegaard Floer homology

According to Proposition 3.9 of Ozsvath and Szabo's original paper "Holomorphic disks and topological invariants for closed three-manifolds" there are indeed topological conditions one can put on the …
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Books in advanced differential topology

As Deane Yang suggests, you could narrow down your task by picking a short paper and digging deep enough to understand all the ingredients that go into it. For this purpose, I can highly recommend Mil …
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Why should I care about the Jones polynomial?

Your question presupposes that people were excited about the Jones polynomial because it would help them to classify/distinguish knots. In fact, I suspect the interest came from the fact that this kno …
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Symplectic Submanifolds of Contact Manifolds and Contact Submanifolds of Symplectic Manifolds

As Chris Gerig indicates in his comment, the correct notion is that of a contact-type hypersurface. These always exist, even locally. You could just take the boundary of a Darboux ball, which always e …
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Intuitive crutches for higher dimensional thinking

One extremely useful trick for visualising a certain class of simple 4- and 6-dimensional spaces is the toric moment map picture. (a) The basic example is a 2-sphere $\{x^2+y^2+z^2=1\}$, which you eq …
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What prerequisites do I need to read the book Ricci Flow and the Poincare Conjecture, publis...

If I were going there I wouldn't start from here. If you're new to 3-manifolds, it might better to familiarise yourself with them intimately before starting on Perelman's work. In fact, learning some …
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book on calabi yau manifolds

Depending on how much of a beginner you are, you could begin by reading Barth-Hulek-Peters-Van de Ven paying particular attention to the section on K3 surfaces (which are 2-(complex)-dimensional Calab …
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