Speaker:
Lei Chen
Institution:
Caltech
Time:
Monday, December 3, 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Host:
Location:
RH 340P
In this talk, I will discuss a direction of study in topology: Section problems. There are many variations of the problem: Nielsen realization problems, sections of a surface bundle, sections of a bundle with special property (e.g. nowhere zero vector eld). I will discuss some techniques including homology, Thurston-Nielsen classication and dynamics. Also I will share many open problems. Some of the result are joint work with Nir Gadish, Justin Lanier and Nick Salter.