Ends of Nonpositively Curved Manifolds

Series
Research Horizons Seminar
Time
Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 12:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 005
Speaker
Igor Belegradek – Georgia Tech, School of Math – http://people.math.gatech.edu/~ib/
Organizer
Robert Krone
In the talk we will start from examples of open surfaces, such as the complex plane minus a Cantor set, review their classification, and then move to higher dimensions, where we discuss ends of manifolds in the topological setting, and finally in the geometric setting under the assumption of nonpositive curvature.