Poincare Conjecture -- John Morgan, September 30, 2003

Professor Morgan will speak about the Poincare Conjecture. Beginning with curves and surfaces, he will present an introduction to topology and try to motivate the Poincare Conjecture and Thurston's Geometrization Conjecture, which implies it. He will present some remarks on the claimed solution, developed by Grisha Perelman, based on the work of our own Professor Richard Hamilton.