Catherine Searle, Wichita State University
Positively curved manifolds are notoriously hard to classify. In the early 90's, based on the observation that the few known examples are all highly symmetric, Karsten Grove proposed his "Symmetry Program" which suggests trying to classify such manifolds with the additional hypothesis of…
Burton Jones Lecture Information:
Bill Goldman, University of Maryland
May 11th - Skye Hall 284
Classification of Geometric Structures on Manifolds
In 1872 F. Klein, based on ideas of S. Lie, proposed that the classical geometries be understood via the theory of transformation groups and homogeneous spaces. Later in the…