Seminar:
Locally homogeneous structures on surfaces

Wintersemester 2016/2017

Daniele Alessandrini

Schedule

• Wednesdays 14:00-16:00 Uhr, INF 205, Room 02/104

Organization Meeting

• Wednesday October 19, 14:00-16:00 Uhr, INF 205, Room 02/104

Students who would like to sign up for the seminar should come to the organization meeting, if for some reason you cannot be there, please send me an e-mail (daniele.alessandrini@gmail.com)

Müsli

Please, register for the seminar on MÜSLI, and send me an e-mail (daniele.alessandrini@gmail.com).

Description

The seminar will be an introduction to the topic of Geometric Structures on surfaces. After a brief introduction we will concentrate on examples of particularly interesting geometries, like hyperbolic geometry, affine geometry, and real and complex projective geometry. We will see how to locally model a manifold on a base model space, and we will see examples where we can classify all possible geometric structures on a fixed topological manifold.

Last year, a seminar with a similar topic was offered. This seminar will be completely independent on the seminar last year. The talks will be very different, with the only exception of the first introductory talk, so also students who already followed the seminar last year can attend this one.

At the organizational meeting several topics will be proposed. Among them, you can choose one topic you are interested in. Once you have agreed on the topic of your project with me, you should contact me to discuss the content of your talk in more detail. Please let me help you during the preparation of your presentation. Every student is expected to hand in a short report as well.

Prerequisites

This seminar is aimed at students who are interested in differential geometry. Students are expected to have a good knowledge of calculus and a certain familiarity with the differential geometry of manifolds. There are several topics for students to choose from, and hence any interested students are welcome to attend. The seminar is open for bachelor and master students. The seminar will be taught in English.

Schedule

19.10.2016	Organization meeting
26.10.2016	Daniele
30.11.2016	Christoph
07.12.2016	André
14.12.2016	Felix
11.01.2017	Gianluca
18.01.2017	Evgenii
25.01.2017	Johannes
01.02.2017	???

Zuletzt geändert: 23/11/2016