Seminar series
Date
Thu, 29 Oct 2009
Time
12:00 -
13:00
Location
SR1
Speaker
George Raptis
Organisation
Oxford
The talk is about the homotopy type of configuration spaces. Once upon a time there was a conjecture that it is a homotopy invariant of closed manifolds. I will discuss the strong evidence supporting this claim, together with its recent disproof by a counterexample. Then I will talk about the corrected version of the original conjecture.