CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: A personal story of the 4D Poincare conjecture
VirtualMichael Freedman (Microsoft – Station Q) Title: A personal story of the 4D Poincare conjecture Abstract: The proof of PC4 involved the convergence of several historical streams. To get started: high […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Immersions of manifolds and homotopy theory
VirtualRalph Cohen (Stanford University) Title: Immersions of manifolds and homotopy theory Abstract: The interface between the study of the topology of differentiable manifolds and algebraic topology has been one of the richest […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Birational geometry
VirtualVyacheslav V. Shokurov (Johns Hopkins University) Title: Birational geometry Abstract: About main achievements in birational geometry during the last fifty years. Talk chair: Caucher Birkar Video
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Kunihiko Kodaira and complex manifolds
VirtualYujiro Kawamata (University of Tokyo) Title: Kunihiko Kodaira and complex manifolds Abstract: Kodaira’s motivation was to generalize the theory of Riemann surfaces in Weyl’s book to higher dimensions. After quickly recalling the […]