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Talk #1 (9:30am-10:45am): Paul Mcauley, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Vertical and Horizontal Spaces"

For a given Riemannian manifold (M,g), a vector bundle E over M, we can define the vertical space VE which is a submanifold of TE. Given a connection on E we can then define the horizontal space HE which is a submanifold of TE. These spaces give us a fibre metric on TE and then we can look at the Levi-Civita connection in terms of these vertical and horizontal spaces.