Geodesics in the complex of curves with small intersection

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar
Time
Monday, May 5, 2014 - 2:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Dan Margalit – Georgia Institute of Technology
Organizer
Dan Margalit
In joint work with Joan Birman and Bill Menasco, we describe a new finite set of geodesics connecting two given vertices of the curve complex. As an application, we give an effective algorithm for distance in the curve complex.