Topology

Hyperplane Arrangements and Applications

Some photos from the Hyperplane Arrangements and Applications conference which took place at UBC Vancouver, August 8-12. This conference was held in honour of Hiroaki Terao.

Conference: 
Hyperplane Arrangements and Applications
Date: 
Mon, Aug 8, 2011
Class: 
Scientific
Subject: 
Algebraic Geometry
Combinatorics
Algebra
Topology

Modelling Aperiodic Solids: Concepts and Properties of Tilings and their Physical Interpretation

Author: 
Franz Gaehler
Date: 
Thu, Aug 1, 2002
Location: 
University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
Conference: 
Aperiodic Order, Dynamical Systems, Operator Algebras and Topology
Abstract: 

Topics: Quasicrystals, Quasiperiodicity, Translation module, Repetitivity, Local Isomorphism, Mutual Local Derivability, Matching Rules, Covering Rules, Maximal Coverings

Notes: 
PDF icon Gaehler_Franz_2.pdf
Class: 
Scientific
Subject: 
Condensed Matter and Statistical Mechanics
Topology

Cohomology of Quasiperiodic Tilings

Author: 
Franz Gaehler
Date: 
Thu, Aug 1, 2002
Location: 
University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
Conference: 
Aperiodic Order, Dynamical Systems, Operator Algebras and Topology
Abstract: 

Topics:

• Quasiperiodic tilings

• The hull of a tiling

• Approximation the hull by CW-spaces

• Application to canonical projection tilings

• Relation to matching rules

• Towards an interpretation

Notes: 
PDF icon Gaehler_Franz_1.pdf
Class: 
Scientific
Subject: 
Discrete Mathematics
Topology

Torsion invariants of 3-manifolds

Author: 
Vladimir Turayev
Date: 
Mon, Jan 20, 2003
Location: 
University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Conference: 
PIMS Distinguished Chair Lectures
Abstract: 

This series of six lectures is intended for a general audience. The aim of the lectures is to survey the theory of torsions of 3-dimensional manifolds. The torsions were introduced by Kurt Reidemeister in 1935 to give a topological classification of lens spaces. Recent interest in torsions is due to their connections with the Seiberg-Witten invariants of 4-manifolds and the Floer-type homology of 3-manifolds. The lectures will cover the above topics.

Notes: 
PDF icon Turaev.pdf
Class: 
Scientific
Subject: 
Topology

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