[Binghamton Geometry/Topology Seminar] September 21 ***NOTE CHANGE IN DATE, TIME, and LOCATION***

[Lucas Sabalka]

Next week's Geometry/Topology Seminar will be held on Tuesday instead of
Thursday, in Lecture Hall 4.

Binghamton Geometry/Topology Seminar
http://www.math.binghamton.edu/dept/topsem/
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Date: *Tuesday*, September 21, 2010

>  Time: *4:30–5:30* pm
Place: *Lecture Hall 4*


Speaker: Fuquan Fang (Capital Normal University)

Title:  Are almost flat manifolds zero cobordant?

Abstract:  It is known for decades that every compact flat manifold is zero
bordant, by Hamrick-Royster. By Gromov-Ruh, almost flat manifolds are
infra-nilmanifolds. It is conjectured by Farrell-Zdravkovska that almost
flat manifolds are zero bordant (the same question was also collected in
Yau's problem list). In this talk I will explain some recent advances joint
with Jim Davis on this problem, asserting that the answer is yes when the
holonomy is cyclic. This generalizes earlier works of Farrell-Zdravkovska
and Upadhyay.
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