Sphere eversion: From Smale to Gromov I

Series
Geometry Topology Student Seminar
Time
Wednesday, September 12, 2018 - 2:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Hyunki Min – Georgia Tech
Organizer
Hyun Ki Min
In 1957, Smale proved a striking result: we can turn a sphere inside out without any singularity. Gromov in his thesis, proved a generalized version of this theorem, which had been the starting point of the h-principle. In this talk, we will prove Gromov's theorem and see applications of it.