Speaker: 

Zhiren Wang

Institution: 

Yale University

Time: 

Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Host: 

Location: 

RH 440R

As part of a more general conjecture by Katok and Spatzier, it was asked if all smooth Anosov Z^r-actions on tori, nilmanifolds and infranilmanifolds without rank-1 factor actions are, up to smooth conjugacy, actions by automorphisms. In this talk, we will discuss a recent joint work with Federico Rodriguez Hertz that affirmatively answers this question.