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.