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.]
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.
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 |
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