Imperial College, London, UK 2005-04-15 SG.03 In this talk Professor Bridson will explain the geometrisation conjecture to 3-manifolds and then explain how the large-scale geometry and complexity of “navigating” in the universal cover of a compact 3-manifold is related to the algebraic structure of the fundamental group of the manifold.
The Forder Lecturer is an eminent British Mathematician, selected every two years by the New Zealand Mathematical Society in conjunction with the London Mathematical Society to give a lecture tour of New Zealand.
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