An Introduction to Braids and Complex Polynomials
- Series
- Geometry Topology Seminar Pre-talk
- Time
- Monday, September 23, 2019 - 12:45 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 006
- Speaker
- Michael Dougherty – Colby College – michael.dougherty@colby.edu
In this informal chat, I will introduce the braid group and several equivalent topological perspectives from which to view it. In particular, we will discuss the role that complex polynomials play in this setting, along with a few classical results.