Topological Manifolds – The First 100 Years
CMSA EVENTS: CMSA COLLOQUIUM
When: September 15, 2025
						
																			
											4:30 pm - 5:30 pm										
																								
								
										Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10																					
																		
										
								
												Address:
													20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States											
																			
																				Speaker: Michael Freedman (Harvard CMSA and Logical Intelligence)																	
		
								I’ll review manifold topology in the topological category from its start with work of Rado (1925) an Kneser (1926) to the present. Work of Moise, Mazur, Kirby, Siebenmann, Sullivan, Kruskal, and the speaker will be discussed. In my view there is one pressing open question (the A-B slice problem). I will end with some thoughts on putting an AI to work on it.
