December 3, 2014
4:10PM - 5:10PM
CH 218
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2014-12-03 17:10:00
2014-12-03 18:10:00
High-Dimensional Unknotting
Speaker: Jim Fowler (OSU)Abstract: Manifolds are spaces which are locally modeled on Euclidean space, but might be globally twisted in some way; two-dimensional examples include a sphere or a torus. If you've never seen manifolds before, no need to fear: we'll play with some first examples. Then we'll sketch the machinery of "piecewise-linear (PL) topology."Armed with that machinery, a technique called "sunny collapse" will show that a three-dimensional sphere can be unknotted inside a six-dimensional sphere. Note: Pre-candidacy students can sign up for this lecture series by registering for one or two credit hours of Math 6193, Call/Class # 20913 (with Prof H. Moscovici).
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2014-12-03 16:10:00
2014-12-03 17:10:00
High-Dimensional Unknotting
Speaker: Jim Fowler (OSU)Abstract: Manifolds are spaces which are locally modeled on Euclidean space, but might be globally twisted in some way; two-dimensional examples include a sphere or a torus. If you've never seen manifolds before, no need to fear: we'll play with some first examples. Then we'll sketch the machinery of "piecewise-linear (PL) topology."Armed with that machinery, a technique called "sunny collapse" will show that a three-dimensional sphere can be unknotted inside a six-dimensional sphere. Note: Pre-candidacy students can sign up for this lecture series by registering for one or two credit hours of Math 6193, Call/Class # 20913 (with Prof H. Moscovici).
CH 218
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America/New_York
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Speaker: Jim Fowler (OSU)
Abstract: Manifolds are spaces which are locally modeled on Euclidean space, but might be globally twisted in some way; two-dimensional examples include a sphere or a torus. If you've never seen manifolds before, no need to fear: we'll play with some first examples. Then we'll sketch the machinery of "piecewise-linear (PL) topology."
Armed with that machinery, a technique called "sunny collapse" will show that a three-dimensional sphere can be unknotted inside a six-dimensional sphere.
Note: Pre-candidacy students can sign up for this lecture series by registering for one or two credit hours of Math 6193, Call/Class # 20913 (with Prof H. Moscovici).