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Geometry-Topology Reading Seminar

Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 10:30am

Clay Shonkwiler

UPenn

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4N30

In physical problems like those in geophysics or medical imaging it is often desirable to reconstruct the topology or geometry of a manifold from boundary data. The classical Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator, which is essentially the voltage-to-current map on the boundary of a manifold, has long been known to encode significant geometric information about the manifold. In this talk I will discuss how to recover the cup product on a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary from a generalization of the classical Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator to differential forms.