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February 20, 2024 4:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET
Reading Seminar in Geometry and Topology
LGRT 1685

In this talk, we introduce the braid group as the fundamental group of configuration space. We also compute the diffeomorphism groups of disks and pair of pants, which are the building blocks for future study of general surface mapping class groups.