Dean of the College and Mathematics Program Present
3-Manifolds:
The Wacky, The Wild, and The Weird
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
RKC 111
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Leona Sparaco, University of Scranton
A 3-manifold is a topological space that locally looks like the Euclidean 3-spaceR3 we are used to. However, these manifolds often behave very differently from R3.
In this talk we will meet a variety of 3-manifolds such as the 3-torus, lens spaces,
and knot complements.
Knot complements represent a large, complex family of 3-manifolds. Most
knot complements belong to a special class of 3-manifolds known as hyperbolic
3-manifolds. We will learn what a hyperbolic 3-manifold is and look at some ways
of gaining a better understanding of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
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For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: RKC 111