| DATE: | Thursday, March 18, 2002 |
| TIME: | 4:40-5:40 PM |
| PLACE: | LN 2205 |
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| TITLE: | "SO(3) monopoles and Witten's Conjecture" |
Witten has conjectured a relation between the Donaldson and the Seiberg-Witten invariants of smooth four-manifolds. In this talk, I will describe some recent progress in the SO(3) monopole program towards proving this conjecture and some additional applications of this program.