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Penn Undergraduate Mathematics Colloquium

Wednesday, September 27, 2006 - 4:30pm

Kris Tapp

Williams College and University of Pennsylvania

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL A6

Tea will be served at 4 PM in DRL 4E17, and a light pizza dinner will be served after the talk in DRL 4E17.

ABSTRACT: I'll introduce the audience to the field of Riemannian geometry. I'll finish with one of my favorite results: Cheeger's finiteness theorem. Intuitively, it says there are only finitely many shapes you can build, given constraints on the size of the shape, the amount of building material, and the degree to which the material will stretch.