Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar

Fall 2009

1:30 – 2:30, Malott 203

Thursday, October 22

Stephen Wang, Bucknell University


Surface groups, Artin groups, and their representations

We will discuss the connections between the geometry of two-dimensional surfaces and certain representations of their fundamental groups into various Lie groups. We will also describe the relationship between surface groups and right-angled Artin groups, and explain how this plays a key role in allowing us to construct explicit examples of such representations.

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