- Series
- Geometry Topology Student Seminar
- Time
- Wednesday, October 9, 2019 - 2:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 006
- Speaker
- Sudipta Kolay – Georgia Tech
- Organizer
- Agniva Roy
It is a classical theorem of Alexander that every closed oriented manifold is a piecewise linear branched covering of the sphere. In this talk, we will discuss some obstructions to realizing a manifold as a branched covering of the sphere if we require additional properties (like being a submanifold) on the branch set.