Geometric complexity and topological rigidity

Series
School of Mathematics Colloquium
Time
Thursday, March 17, 2011 - 11:05am for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 005
Speaker
Guoliang Yu – Vanderbilt University – guoliang.yu@vanderbilt.eduhttp://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/site/jeMHDy
Organizer
Mohammad Ghomi
In this talk, I will introduce a notion of geometric complexity  to study topological rigidity of manifolds. This is joint work with Erik Guentner and Romain Tessera. I will try to make this talk accessible to graduate students and non experts.