Simple Homotopy Theory and the Poincaré Conjecture

Seminar series

Junior Geometry and Topology Seminar

Date

Thu, 29 Jan 2015

Time

16:00 - 17:00

Location

Speaker

Robert Kropholler

Organisation

Oxford

I will introduce simple homotopy theory and then discuss relations between some conjectures in 2 dimensional simple homotopy theory and the 3 and 4 dimensional Poincaré conjectures.