Associohedra, Cyclohedra and Thompson's Group Seminar - Jon McCammond

Event Date: 

Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm

Event Location: 

  • 4607B South Hall

Event Price: 

Free

Event Contact: 

Michael Dougherty

Email: dougherty@math.ucsb.edu

  • Discrete Geometry Seminar

The first half of this talk is a gentle introduction to the families of polytopes known as Associahedra and Cyclohedra. The second half considers the infinite versions of these polytopes and their somewhat surprising connection with the infinite finite-presented simple group known as Thompson's group T. This connection is facilitated by the triangulation of the hyperbolic plane known as the Farey tesselation.