Geometric complexity and topological rigidity
- Series
- School of Mathematics Colloquium
- Time
- Thursday, March 17, 2011 - 11:05 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 005
- Speaker
- Guoliang Yu – Vanderbilt University – guoliang.yu@vanderbilt.edu
In this talk, I will introduce a notion of geometric complexity to study topological rigidity of manifolds. This is joint work with Erik Guentner and Romain Tessera. I will try to make this talk accessible to graduate students and non experts.