Speaker:
Michail Zhitomirskii
Institution:
Technion, Israel
Time:
Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 2:00pm
Location:
RH 306
Each of the items in the title is a big area with a number of known
results and open questions. I will explain that these areas are iso-
morphic. The talk is based on the following joint works with Richard Montgomery: Geometric approach to Goursat flags; Points and curves in the Monster tower; Resolving singularities with Cartans prolongation.