Seminar series
Date
Thu, 27 Nov 2008
Time
13:30 -
14:30
Location
Gibson 1st Floor SR
Speaker
Michael Farber
Organisation
University of Durham
I will describe a topological approach to the motion planning problem of
robotics which leads to a new homotopy invariant of topological spaces
reflecting their "navigational complexity". Technically, this invariant is
defined as the genus (in the sense of A. Schwartz) of a specific fibration.