Normal forms in differential geometry and metrics on Lie groupoids

Description:  In this lecture I will recall some classical and not so classical normal form theorems in differential geometry and I will explain a new, far reaching, metric approach to these results using the language of Lie groupoids. Start Date:  2015-06-09 Start Time:   15:00 Speaker:  Rui Loja Fernandes (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Institution:  Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Place:  Room 2.4 See more:   <Main>