Pure PGR Seminar - Topological complexity, Ingrid Membrillo Solis (Southampton) Seminar
- Time:
- 15:00 - 16:00
- Date:
- 25 April 2018
- Venue:
- Lecture Theatre 10C, Room 10031, Building 54, Mathematical Sciences, University of Southampton, Highfield Campus, SO17 1BJ
For more information regarding this seminar, please email Motijus Valiunas at M.Valiunas@southampton.ac.uk .
Event details
Topological complexity has become a very active area of research in algebraic topology since its introduction in 2003 by Michael Farber. Given a path-connected topological space X, the topological complexity of X is a number that measures the “obstructions” to obtain a continuous map sending a pair of points in X to a path connecting them. In this talk I will give a brief introduction to topological complexity and some related topics such as configuration spaces, robot motion planning and the Lusternik–Schnirelmann category.
Speaker information
Ingrid Membrillo Solis, University of Southampton.