Soul Theorem and moduli spaces

Series
Research Horizons Seminar
Time
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - 12:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 171
Speaker
Igor Belegradek – School of Mathematics, Georgia Tech – ib@math.gatech.edu
Organizer
Craig Sloane
The Soul Theorem, proved by Cheeger and Gromoll forty year ago, reveals a beautiful structure of noncompact complete manifolds of nonnegative curvature. In the talk I will sketch a proof of the Soul Theorem, and relate it to my current work on moduli spaces of nonnegatively curved metrics.