12/05/2011, 15:00 — 16:00 — Room P3.10, Mathematics Building Rui Reis, University of Aberdeen
Manifold functor calculus and h-principles
In the 90's, and inspired by Goodwillie's homotopy functor calculus, M. Weiss developed a variant of functor calculus (called at the time embedding calculus) in order to study the homotopy type of certain spaces of maps between manifolds such as spaces of immersions and spaces of embeddings. In this talk I will give a brief overview of the basic definitions and properties of this manifold functor calculus and describe how it can be used to prove Vassiliev's h-principle.
