- 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.