• Lecturer: Jürgen Jost
• Date: Tuesday 13.30 - 15.00
• First class: April, 7th, 2015
• Room: MPI MiS, A 01
• Language: English
• Target audience: MSc students, PhD students
• Content (Keywords): Riemannian geometry, metric spaces, curvature
• References:
  
  • J.Jost, Riemannian Geometry and Geometric Analysis, 6th ed., 2011
  • Further references will be provided during the course.

Abstract

In this course, I shall discuss various aspects of the notion of curvature as a measure of the deviation of a metric structure from a flat, Euclidean one.