Partial Torelli Groups

Series
Geometry Topology Student Seminar
Time
Wednesday, October 16, 2019 - 2:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Daniel Minahan – Georgia Tech
Organizer
Agniva Roy

The Torelli group is the subgroup of the mapping class group acting trivially on homology.  We will discuss some basic properties of the Torelli group and explain how to define it for surfaces with boundary.  We will also give some Torelli analogues of the Birman exact sequence.