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

2006/04/18

16:30-18:00   Room #056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Vladimir Turaev (Univ. Louis Pasteur Strasbourg)
Topology of words
[ Abstract ]
There is a parallel between words, defined as finite sequences of letters, and curves on surfaces. This allows to treat words as geometric objects and to analyze them using techniques from low-dimensional topology. I will discuss basic ideas in this direction and the resulting topological invariants of words.