Event time:
Thursday, February 8, 2007 - 11:30am to Wednesday, February 7, 2007 - 7:00pm
Location:
431 DL
Speaker:
Helen Wong
Speaker affiliation:
Yale
Event description:
Beginning with the Jones-Kauffman skein theory, we will describe the
construction of projective unitary representations for the mapping class group
of a surface. We will investigate some applications to the study of
three-dimensional manifolds.