Date:
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Location:
745 Patterson Office Tower
Speaker(s) / Presenter(s):
Professor Bert Guillou, University of Kentucky
Title: An introduction to operads
Abstract: Operads first arose in the 60's and 70's for the study of loop spaces, but there was a large resurgence of interest in the 90's once connections with Koszul duality, moduli spaces, and representation theory were realized. I will discuss the definition and familiar examples in both topology and algebra. We will see Stasheff polyhedra in the context of loop spaces as well as examples related to moduli spaces.
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