Seminar series
Date
Thu, 12 Nov 2015
Time
16:00 -
17:00
Location
C5
Speaker
Gareth Wilkes
Organisation
Oxford
I will introduce the profinite completion as a way of aggregating information about the finite-sheeted covers of a 3-manifold, and discuss the state of the homeomorphism problem for 3-manifolds in this context; in particular, for geometrizable 3-manifolds.