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Geometry and Topology Seminars

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See below for upcoming seminars or access the seminar archive.


Organizers

Bill Bogley, Christine Escher and Ren Guo

Contact

escher@math.oregonstate.edu

Meeting time

M 1200-1250


Reducing the Structure Group and Orientation of Vector Bundles

Kidd 280

Speaker: Chung-Ping Lai

We will first revisit the reduction of the structure group of a fiber bundle. We then focus on the example of vector bundles. Finally, we demonstrate how reducing the structure group leads to a definition of the orientation of vector bundles. Read more.