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Math-Physics Joint Seminar

Thursday, March 23, 2017 - 4:30pm

Ben Knudsen

Harvard University

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4C6

Combining ideas from factorization homology and discrete Morse theory, we develop an approach to the study of configuration spaces of cell complexes that is flexible and suitable for computation. We describe the theory behind this approach and apply it to study the homology of graph braid groups. This is joint work in progress with Byung Hee An and Gabriel Drummond-Cole.
 

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