Seminar series
Date
Mon, 06 Feb 2012
Time
03:45 -
04:45
Location
L3
Speaker
Ian Leary
Organisation
Southampton
The Eilenberg-Ganea conjecture is the statement that every group of cohomological dimension two admits a two-dimensional classifying space. This problem is unsolved after 50 years. I shall discuss the background to this question and negative answers to some other related questions. This includes recent joint work with Martin Fluch.