| DATE: | Thursday, November 9, 2000 |
| TIME: | 4:30-5:30 PM |
| PLACE: | LN 2205 |
| SPEAKER: | Xiaochun Rong, Rutgers |
| TITLE: | Positive Curvature and Fundamental Groups |
A central problem in Riemannian geometry is to study the interplay between curvature of a metric and the topology of the underlying manifold. In this talk, we are concerned with the fundamental group of a positively curved manifold. We will first give a brief account on the history of the study of the fundamental group of manifold with positive sectional curvature. Then we will describe some most recent development on this subject.