Events

Algebra/Topology Seminar – Patricia Cahn (Smith College)

346 Gordon Palmer Hall 505 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa

Title: Colored Tri-Plane Diagrams and the Slice-Ribbon Problem Abstract: We study dihedral branched covers of the four-dimensional sphere, where the branching set is a surface with one singularity modeled on

Pi Mu Epsilon – Patricia Cahn (Smith College)

302 Gordon Palmer Hall

Title: Stranger Strings Abstract: How can we describe all spaces of a given dimension? We'll start by describing 2-dimensional spaces, which look like donuts with any number of holes. Then we'll learn how