Speaker: 

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon

Institution: 

IHES and Stanford

Time: 

Thursday, November 7, 2013 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Host: 

Location: 

NSII 1201

In the last century, Geometry underwent several
substantial extensions and revisions based on
the fundamental revolutions that it lived through
in the XIXth century.

The purpose of the lecture is to discuss several
aspects of these transformations: the new
concepts that emerged from these new points
of view, the new perspectives that could be
drawn from bringing together the continuous and
discrete viewpoints, some classical problems that could
be solved, and the new interactions with other
disciplines that went along.

It includes the presentation of the views of the late Professor
Chern Shiing Shen on some of these issues.