S2D5 – Hauptseminar Niedrigdimensionale Topologie // S4D2 – Graduate Seminar on Topology

Zopfgruppen und Konfigurationsräume // Braid groups and configuration spaces

Summer semester 2019

Coordinates

The seminar takes place on Wednesdays from 12:15 to 14:00 in seminar room N0.007 (Endenicher Allee 60). [In some weeks the schedule differs slightly. See below or the seminar programme for the exact schedule.]

BASIS: S2D5 – S4D2

Programme

The seminar programme is here: (English) – (German).

Prerequisites

Einführung in die Geometrie und Topologie, in particular the fundamental group and the theory of covering spaces.
Topologie I, in particular homology theory.

Office hours

Tuesday 14–16 (or another time, by appointment); office 4.019.
NB: please email or speak to me in person beforehand in order to arrange a meeting during the office hours.

The unofficial (but more colourful) seminar webpage is here.

Talk	Date	Speaker
1. Definitions of braid groups.	03.04.2019	Arne Beines
2. Fibre bundles, classifying spaces and homotopy groups.	10.04.2019	Nicolas Schmitt
3. The pure braid group and the centre of the braid group.	17.04.2019	Jonas Nehme
4. Configuration spaces and spaces of polynomials.	24.04.2019	Erik Babuschkin
5. Automorphisms of free groups.	30.04.2019	Johanna Luz
6. Braid groups as mapping class groups.	08.05.2019	Nicolai Gerber
7. Surface braid groups and the Birman exact sequence.	14.05.2019	Avital Berry
8. Braid groups and links.	22.05.2019	Roman Pleskovsky
9. Markov’s theorem.	29.05.2019	Koen van Greevenbroek
10. Homological representations of braid groups – the Burau representation.	05.06.2019	Sid Maibach
11. The Lawrence-Krammer-Bigelow representations of braid groups.	19.06.2019	Branko Juran
12. Linearity of the braid groups.	19.06.2019	Sigurður Jens Albertsson
13. Integral homological stability for braid groups.	25.06.2019	Peng Hui How
14. Mod-2 cohomology of braid groups.	26.06.2019	Ödül Tetik