Event Date:
Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Event Location:
- 4607B South Hall
Event Price:
Free
Event Contact:
Michael Dougherty
Email: dougherty@math.ucsb.edu
- Discrete Geometry Seminar
The first half of this talk is a gentle introduction to the families of polytopes known as Associahedra and Cyclohedra. The second half considers the infinite versions of these polytopes and their somewhat surprising connection with the infinite finite-presented simple group known as Thompson's group T. This connection is facilitated by the triangulation of the hyperbolic plane known as the Farey tesselation.
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