Tuesday Seminar on Topology

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Date, time & place Tuesday 17:00 - 18:30 056Room #056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Organizer(s) KAWAZUMI Nariya, KITAYAMA Takahiro, SAKASAI Takuya

2006/05/16

17:00-18:30   Room #056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Laurentiu Maxim (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Fundamental groups of complements to complex hypersurfaces
[ Abstract ]
I will survey various Alexander-type invariants of hypersurface complements, with an emphasis on obstructions on the type of groups that can arise as fundamental groups of complements to affine hypersurfaces.