Braid Theory: Burau and Gassner Representations

Series
Geometry Topology Student Seminar
Time
Wednesday, February 18, 2015 - 2:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Jamie Conway – Georgia Tech
Organizer
James Conway
We will describe the Burau representation of the braid group and the related Gassner representation of the pure braid group. We will explore how the Burau representation is related to the Alexander polynomial.