- Series
- Other Talks
- Time
- Friday, December 4, 2009 - 3:00pm for 1.5 hours (actually 80 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 168
- Speaker
- Michelle Delcourt and Leo Chen – School of Mathematics, Georgia Tech
- Organizer
- Matt Baker
Leo Chen: The Shape and Stability of a Flexible Sheet in a von Karman Vortex Street
Michelle Delcourt: Dessin and Manturov bracket shuffles
In this talk we will explore the connections between knot theory and combinatorics. Links are related to Grothendieck's dessins d'enfants. Cartographic one-vertex dessins can be represented by chord diagrams. The diagrams can be recorded as "words" using a finite alphabet (k-bracket parenthesis system). Many combinatorial objects are related to these Manturov bracket structures.