Time: Thursday April 28, 2016, 3:00 p.m. Location: Binghamton University, Fine Arts Building, Room 258
The lecture will be followed by a reception at 4.30 p.m. in The President's Reception
Room, Anderson Performing Arts Center, Binghamton University. This reception is for
the whole Binghamton Mathematics Community as well as for our visitors.
Abstract:
To each complete Riemannian manifold MM is associated a dynamical system – the geodesic
flow on the unit tangent bundle SMSM. To what extent are the dynamical properties
of this flow wedded to the geometry of MM? I will discuss some historical highlights,
open questions and recent breakthroughs.
