Speaker: 

Assistant Professor Todd Fisher

Institution: 

Brigham Young University

Time: 

Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - 3:00pm

Location: 

MSTB 256

In 1969, Hirsch posed the following problem: given a diffeomorphism of a manifold and a hyperbolic set for the diffeomorphism, describe the topology of the hyperbolic set and the dynamics of the diffeomorphism for this set. We solve the problem when the hyperbolic set is a closed 3-manifold.