Topology Seminar: Jesus Gonzalez

  • Date: 09/20/2017
  • Time: 15:15
Lecturer(s):
Jesus González, CINVESTAV
Location: 

University of British Columbia

Topic: 

Hopf invariants in the motion planning problem

Description: 

Hopf invariants, a basic construction in homotopy theory, are closely related to Lusternik–Schnirelmann category which, in turn, can be defined as the sectional category of a certain evaluation map. In this talk I'll introduce the notion of Hopf invariants for general fibrations and exhibit a connection between the Hopf invariants for a product fibration and those for the factors. Applications will be drawn to the motion planning problem.

Other Information: 

ESB 4133 (PIMS Lounge)
Wed 20 Sep 2017, 3:15pm-4:15pm