MCTP REU Seminar: Riddles about the fundamental group

Series
Other Talks
Time
Friday, June 19, 2015 - 11:00am for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Dr. Kirsten Wickelgren – Georgia Tech
Organizer
Christina Frederick
The loops on a topological space up to an equivalence relation called homotopy form a group called the fundamental group. We'll define the fundamental group and talk about two riddles whose solutions use this idea.