Title: Monopole Floer homology and Legendrian knots

Abstract: We will define invariants of Legendrian knots using Kronheimer and Mrowka's construction of monopole 
Floer homology for sutured manifolds. These invariants have several interesting properties: their behavior under 
stabilization and contact surgery suggests that they are closely related to the Lisca-Ozsvath-Stipsicz-Szabo 
invariant in knot Floer homology, and they are functorial with respect to Lagrangian concordance.  As an 
application, we will construct many examples of non-loose knots in overtwisted contact manifolds.