Spaces of nonnegatively curved metrics II

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.