Abstract: In recent years, significant progress has been made in understanding the algebraic structure of the groups of area-preserving homeomorphisms of surfaces. In particular, in 2021 and 2022, Cristofaro-Gardiner, Humilière, Mak, Seyfaddini and Smith have used Heegaard Floer Homology to introduce new spectral invariants and prove the non-simplicity of several groups in the case of the disc and the sphere. In this talk, I will present a generalization of their results in higher genus. This is joint work with Cheuk Yu Mak.