Four-manifolds, surgery and group actions

Seminar series

Geometry and Analysis Seminar

Date

Mon, 20 May 2013
14:15

Location

Speaker

Ian Hambleton

Organisation

McMaster/MPIM Bonn

The talk will survey some results about smooth and topological 4-manifolds obtained via surgery, and discuss some contrasting information provided by gauge theory about smooth finite group actions on 4-manifolds.