Abstract for April 28, 2008 seminar

Faculty Research Perspectives



Recognizing Euclidean Space

Steve Ferry

April 28, 3:30 PM in Hill 705



Abstract.

I will discuss the problem of recognizing and classifying topological manifolds. The talk will include discussions of Milnor's exotic 7- sphere and the Bryant-Ferry-Mio-Weinberger examples of nonmanifolds that have many of the properties of manifold.

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