- Series
- Geometry Topology Student Seminar
- Time
- Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 2:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 005
- Speaker
- Marta Aguilera – Georgia Tech
- Organizer
- Meredith Casey
In this talk I define the braid groups, its Garside structure, and its
application to solve the word and conjugacy problems. I present a braid
group with $n$ strands as the mapping class group of the disk with $n$
punctures, $\mathbb{D}^2-\{p_1\ldots p_n\}$, and a classification of
surface homeomorphisms by the Nielsen Thurston theorem. I will also
discuss results that require algebraic and geometric tools.