Title: Curvature and Fundamental Groups

Time: November 15, 2011, 10:10-12:00am

Speaker: Professor Xiaochun Rong(Rutgers University)

Venue: Room 09 at Quan-Zhai (全斋), New location for BICMR, Peking University

Abstract: We will start with a brief survey on the title, and then focus on some recent progress in the study of the fundamental groups of positively, non-negatively (with symmetry) and almost non-negatively curved manifolds.