November 16

Gustavo Jasso (University of Lund)

Title: Brackets, trees and the Borromean rings

Abstract:

I will describe some of the combinatorics that emerge from the familar associativity equation

(ab)c = a(bc),

and explain how these encode fundamental algebraic structures that are now ubiquitous in Algebra, Geometry and Topology.

For more information, see the homepage of the colloquium.