[Binghamton Geometry/Topology Seminar] Topology/Geometry Seminar this Thursday

[Tam Nguyen Phan]

  BINGHAMTON GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR


   Date: Thursday, November 20, 2014

   Time:  2.50 pm

   Place: Whitney Hall, Room 100E,  followed by coffee/tea in the
      Hilton Reading Room. Note the new location of the math department.


   Speaker: Christoforos Neofytidis (Binghamton University)
   Title: Fundamental groups of aspherical manifolds and maps of non-zero
degree

Abstract:
We discuss obstructions to the existence of maps of non-zero degree from
direct products to rationally essential manifolds, with special emphasis to
aspherical manifolds whose fundamental groups have non-trivial center. As
an application, we obtain an ordering of all non-hyperbolic 4-manifolds
possessing a Thurston aspherical geometry.

NOTE:  The seminar has a webpage where the semester's program is listed:

http://www2.math.binghamton.edu/p/seminars/topsem

It can also be linked from the Department's Home Page.
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