Xavier Ramos Olivé
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Is a sea urchin a ball?

11/12/2016

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Last summer I participated in a summer school on Geometric Analysis in the beautiful town of Como, Italy. A part from having a great time and meeting a lot of mathematicians, I was introduced, by professor Christina Sormani (CUNY), to a new notion of convergence of metric spaces: the Sormani-Wenger Intrinsic Flat Convergence.

What is this all about, you might be asking? Well, before jumping on this rather involved concept, let's try to understand what is a metric space and what do I mean by convergence of metric spaces.


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    I am a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

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