Braided embeddings of manifolds

Series
Geometry Topology Student Seminar
Time
Wednesday, September 20, 2017 - 1:55pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Sudipta Kolay – Georgia Tech
Organizer
Sudipta Kolay
The theory of braids has been very useful in the study of (classical) knot theory. One can hope that higher dimensional braids will play a similar role in higher dimensional knot theory. In this talk we will introduce the concept of braided embeddings of manifolds, and discuss some natural questions about them.