This Wednesday, 3/1, please join us in LGRT 1528 from 5 to 6 pm for Math club. We will hear a talk from Angelica Simonetti on braid groups, with pizza and soda provided. Here’s Angelica’s abstract:
Braid groups: from algebra to geometry
“Who has never seen a girl with her hair gathered in a braid? Braid groups are a perfect example of how mathematics can be deep, rich, even complicated and yet intuitive at the same time. In the talk we are going to present braid groups algebraically and show some of their geometric interpretations, including how they appear in the theory of mapping class groups.”