- Series
- Geometry Topology Working Seminar
- Time
- Friday, April 8, 2011 - 2:05pm for 2 hours
- Location
- Skiles 269
- Speaker
- Igor Belegradek – Georgia Tech
- Organizer
- Igor Belegradek
I will prove contractibility of the space of nonnegatively curved metrics on the 2-sphere via the uniformization, discuss difficulties of extending the result to metrics on the plane, and then discuss similar problems in higher dimensions.