Colloquium

Speaker: Michael Freedman (Harvard CMSA and Logical Intelligence)

Title: Topological Manifolds – The First 100 Years

Abstract: I’ll review manifold topology in the topological category from its start with work of Rado (1925) and Kneser (1926) to the present. Work of Moise, Mazur, Kirby, Siebenmann, Sullivan, Kruskal, and the speaker will be discussed. In my view there is one pressing open question (the A-B slice problem). I will end with some thoughts on putting an AI to work on it.