Department of Mathematics

Indian Institute of Science

Bangalore 560 012

 

SEMINAR

 

Speaker

: 

 Prof. Siddhartha Gadgil
Affiliation : IISc, Bangalore.

Subject Area

:

Mathematics

 

Venue

:

Lecture Hall I, Department of Mathematic

 

Time

:

2.00 p.m.

 

Date  

: 

August8, 2011 (Monday)

Title

: 

"Loewner matrices"
Abstract

: 

 The Goldman bracket associates a Lie Algebra to closed curves on a surface. I shall describe the bracket and its basic properties. 
 I shall also sketch some joint work with Moira Chas, where we show that the Goldman bracket together with the operation of taking 
 powers determines geometric intersection and self-intersection numbers.