Three closed, nonselfintersecting geodesics on the sphere

Series
Geometry Topology Working Seminar
Time
Friday, September 26, 2008 - 2:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 269
Speaker
Jim Krysiak – School of Mathematics, Georgia Tech
Organizer
John Etnyre
This will be a presentation of the classical result on the existence of three closed nonselfintersecting geodesics on surfaces diffeomorphic to the sphere. It will be accessible to anyone interested in topology and geometry.