Tom Ilmanen: Catalogue data in Autumn Semester 2016

Name Prof. Dr. Tom Ilmanen
FieldMathematik
Address
Professur für Mathematik
ETH Zürich, HG G 62.3
Rämistrasse 101
8092 Zürich
SWITZERLAND
Telephone+41 44 632 54 43
Fax+41 44 632 14 04
E-mailtom.ilmanen@math.ethz.ch
URLhttp://www.math.ethz.ch/~ilmanent
DepartmentMathematics
RelationshipFull Professor

NumberTitleECTSHoursLecturers
401-1511-00LGeometry3 credits2V + 1UT. Ilmanen
AbstractWe will study the topology and geometry of 2 and 3 dimensional spaces (manifolds) from an informal point of view.
Objective-what is it like to live in a non-Euclidean space (for example, in a surface)?
-orientation, genus, curvature
-classification of closed orientable surfaces
-spherical, Euclidean, and hyperbolic geometry
-3-manifolds a la Thurston
LiteratureJeffrey R. Weeks. The Shape of Space.

Edwin A. Abbott. Flatland. 1884.
401-5350-00LAnalysis Seminar Information 0 credits1KM. Struwe, A. Carlotto, D. Christodoulou, F. Da Lio, A. Figalli, N. Hungerbühler, T. Ilmanen, T. Kappeler, T. Rivière, D. A. Salamon
AbstractResearch colloquium
Objective