Modul:   MAT075  Zurich Graduate Colloquium

What is… the Morse fundamental group?

Vortrag von Salammbo Connolly

Datum: 28.10.25  Zeit: 16.30 - 18.30  Raum:

 In this talk, I will start by explaining the basics of Morse theory, a powerful tool of study for smooth manifolds which simply uses a sufficiently generic smooth function on that manifold, which we call a Morse function. I will then explain how you can recover the fundamental group of the manifold from the Morse function, and if time permits, give some other properties of this "Morse fundamental group".