<div dir="ltr"><p style=""><font size="4" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">DEAN'S LECTURE IN GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY</font></p><p style=""><span style="font-size:12.8px">   Date: Thursday, October 8th, 2015</span><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px">   Time:  2.50 pm</p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px">   Place: Whitney Hall, Room 100E,  followed by coffee/tea in the<br>      Hilton Reading Room. Note the new location of the math department (<a href="http://www2.math.binghamton.edu/p/directions" target="_blank">http://www2.</a><a href="http://www2.math.binghamton.edu/p/directions" target="_blank">math.binghamton.edu</a><a href="http://www2.math.binghamton.edu/p/directions" target="_blank">/p/directions</a>).</p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px">   Speaker:  <strong style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:16.8px">Christopher Croke</strong><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:16.8px"> (University of Pennsylvania)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#333333">   Title: </font> <strong style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:16.8px">Geometric Rigidity Problems</strong></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">    Abstract:</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:16.8px">In this talk we introduce some geometric rigidity problems that ask if you can determine a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary from measurements taken from the outside. The problems includes the boundary rigidity problem: Can you determine the metric inside if you know the distances (measured through the inside) between all pairs of boundary points? The lens rigidity problem: Can you determine the metric if you know how each entering geodesic exits and how long it takes to exit? We will present some counterexamples and some theorems as well as mention some relations to other problems and potential applications.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px">NOTE:  The seminar has a webpage where the semester's program is listed:</p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www2.math.binghamton.edu/p/seminars/topsem" target="_blank">http://www2.math.binghamton.edu/p/seminars/<span class="">topsem</span></a></p></div>