- Series
- Geometry Topology Seminar
- Time
- Monday, February 7, 2011 - 2:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 006
- Speaker
- Dan Margalit – Georgia Tech
- Organizer
- Dan Margalit
The braid group embeds in the mapping class group, and so the symplectic representation of the mapping class group gives rise to a symplectic represenation of the braid group. The basic question Tara Brendle and I are trying to answer is: how can we describe the kernel? Hain and Morifuji have conjectured that the kernel is generated by Dehn twists. I will present some progress/evidence towards this conjecture.