Topological Manifolds – The First 100 Years

Name: Topological Manifolds – The First 100 Years
Start: 2025-09-15T16:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-15T17:30:00-04:00
Location: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10

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.