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SEMINAR: Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Counting curves on surfaces

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Today's date is Thursday, March 28, 2024
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Time and place: 16:00 Friday 6 May in Weatherburn LT

Speaker: Norman Do (Monash University)

Title: Counting curves on surfaces

Abstract: Choose an even number of points on the boundary of a surface. How many ways are there to pair up these points with disjoint arcs on the surface? The most basic instance of this problem produces the Catalan numbers while the problem in general exhibits a surprisingly rich structure. For example, we will show that this enumeration obeys an effective recursion and exhibits polynomial behaviour. Moreover, there are unexpected connections to algebraic geometry and mathematical physics.
Contact Tomasz Popiel <[email protected]>
Start Fri, 06 May 2016 16:00
End Fri, 06 May 2016 17:00
Submitted by Tomasz Popiel <[email protected]>
Last Updated Tue, 03 May 2016 08:48
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