Event Detail

Event Type: 
Department Colloquium
Date/Time: 
Monday, April 1, 2013 - 09:00 to 10:00
Location: 
Kidder 364

Speaker Info

Guest Speaker: 
Fred Wilhelm
Institution: 
University of California, Riverside
Abstract: 

 

(Joint work in progress with Curtis Pro)


I will survey a problem that has a beautiful history that goes back to
Cheeger's 1967 thesis. It is connected to a large body of the Riemannian geometry
that was developed in the later part of the 20th century.

The talk will survey this history and briefly outline a strategy to prove
the following conjecture.

Conjecture 1. For any k in R, v > 0, and D > 0 there are only finitely many diffeomorphism types of Riemannian 4-manifolds with sectional curvature ≥  k; volume ≥ v, and diameter ≤ D. 

Host: 
Catherine Searle