Professor Trevisan just told us he’s passing through town and he would be available for a lecture….of course we took him up on his offer! Cookies and coffee started at 3:30pm and the talk begins at 4:00pm February 5, 2010.
Abstract: Real quasi-toric manifolds are topological spaces having well-behaved torus actions and combinatorially rich quotient spaces. They are closely related to toric varieties, e.g., the set of real points of a smooth projective toric variety is a real quasi-toric manifold. Their mod 2 homology is well-understood, but virtually nothing is known about integral homology. In this talk I will outline a strategy for computing the Betti numbers of a real quasi-toric manifold. The techniques used draw inspiration from Fox’s free calculus and the representation theory of finite groups.
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Hope to see everyone there.
