Riemannian Geometry Seminar

Seminar : Riemannian Geometry

Fall Semester 2018

Home of the student-run seminar on Riemannian Geometry for the Fall 2018 semester.

Participants : Thomas Peebles, Jordan DeSha, Robert Cardona

Time and Place : Wednesday 16:15-18:15, ES 143

Content : Riemannian Metrics, Affine and Riemannian Connections, Geodesics and Convex Neighborhoods, and Curvature.

Date Title Speaker(s)
2018-10-10 Preliminary Discussion Tom/Jordan/Robert
2018-10-17 Review of Differential Manifolds, Tangent Spaces Jordan
2018-10-24 Tangent Bundles Robert
2018-10-31 Riemannian Metrics Tom
2018-11-07 cancelled (due to unyts)
2018-11-14 cancelled
2018-11-21 break
2018-11-28 Affine and Riemannian Connections Jordan
2018-12-05 Geodesics Robert
2018-12-12 Curvature Tom

Resources :

  1. Riemannian Geometry by Manfredo Perdigão do Carmo.
  2. Riemannian Manifolds by John M. Lee
  3. Riemannian Geometry by Peter Peterson
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Robert Cardona
Graduate Student

Applied Topologist