This event is in the past.It took place on March 18, 2026 at East Hall.

An introduction to braid groups 1
Educational Talk

An introduction to braid groups

March 18 at 3pm

At East Hall

Burns Park, Ann Arbor

🧮Some background in group theory helps
🎓Aimed at grad students and researchers
📍East Hall room 3866, 3pm sharp

See braid groups from three angles at once: as configuration spaces, mapping class groups, and pure algebra. It's the kind of math talk that connects disparate fields and makes abstract concepts click.

Academic lecture
Abstract math
Topology focus
Graduate-level