Join the Department of Mathematics and Statistics for a public lecture by Dr. Mark Walsh, Maynooth University, Ireland, titled “Isotopy, Concordance and Intermediate Curvatures” at 3 p.m. Friday, April 12 in 372 Jabara Hall. Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. in 353 Jabara Hall.
Dr. Walsh is a geometer who studies the relationship between topology and curvature. His early work concerned the space of Riemannian metrics of positive scalar curvature (psc) on a smooth compact manifold. There he made a significant contribution to a famous problem: whether concordant psc-metrics are isotopic. He also exhibited certain loop space structures on this space in the case when the underlying manifold is a sphere. More recently, his work has involved other curvature conditions, in particular Ricci curvature as well as intermediate Ricci and scalar curvatures.
The Lecture Series in the Mathematical Sciences began Oct. 12, 1987. The lecture series was originally funded by the Boeing Aircraft Company (1987-1992) and organized by Professor Gary Crown. Since it began, the Department of Mathematics and Statistics has been bringing mathematicians and scientists from around the world to campus. For more information about The Lecture Series in the Mathematical Sciences, contact the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at 316-978-3160.