%0 Journal Article %T Taubes's proof of the Weinstein conjecture in dimension three %A Michael Hutchings %J Mathematics %D 2009 %I arXiv %X This is an introduction to Taubes's proof of the Weinstein conjecture, written for the AMS Current Events Bulletin. It is intended to be accessible to nonspecialists, so much of the article is devoted to background and context. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0906.2444v2