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Intro Talk - The classification of 3-manifolds
Student-Run Geometry/Topology Seminar| Speaker: | Greg Kuperberg, UC Davis |
| Location: | 2112 MSB |
| Start time: | Tue, Dec 1 2015, 11:00AM |
The geometrization theorem, which was the geometrization conjecture for about 30 years, is both conceptually and algorithmically a classification of all closed 3-manifolds. I will describe the classification and sketch some of the ideas of its proof.