Topology Seminar: Lior Silberman

  • Date: 01/30/2013
  • Time: 15:00
Lecturer(s):
Lior Silberman, UBC
Location: 

University of British Columbia

Topic: 

Retractions of representation varieties of nilpotent groups

Description: 

Consider the variety \Hom(\Gamma,G) where \Gamma is a finitely generated nilpotent group, and G a semisimple Lie group. I will discuss joint work with Juan Souto on homotopy retractions from this variety to the representation variety in K, a maximal compact subgroup of G.

Other Information: 

Location: ESB 4127