Seminar series
Date
Fri, 20 Apr 2007
15:15
15:15
Location
L3
Speaker
Tristram de Piro
Organisation
Camerino
I will discuss Garside's representation of elements of the braid group in
terms of "half- twists" and the corresponding solution to the Conjugacy Problem,
originally posed by Artin. If time permits, I will discuss some geometric
implications of this result.