Department of Mathematics

Indian Institute Of Technology Madras , Chennai

Poincaré Conjecture, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems

Speaker : Dr. Ramesh Kasilingam, Indian Institute of Technology Madras

15-03-2019

Abstract :

Henri Poincaré asked, in the year 1904, whether every simply connected closed three dimensional manifold is homeomorphic to the 3-dimensional sphere. The assertion that it is so is known as Poincaré conjecture. It was finally solved a hundred years later by Grigori Perelman who was awarded the Fields Medal in the Madrid ICM-2006. In this talk we give an overview of the development in Topology around this conjecture.

Key Speaker Dr. Ramesh Kasilingam, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Place NAC 522
Start Time 3:00 PM
Finish Time 4:00 PM
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