A joint meeting of the Analysis, Geometry, and Topology Seminar and the Algebra and Logic Seminar
will be held on September 26, 2023, at 2:00 pm in Room 478 of IMI – BAS.

A talk on

Burau Representation and Application to Reducibility and Exchangeability of Braids

will be delivered by Alexander Stоimenov, Dongguk University, Republic of Korea.

Abstract. I will give an introduction to the braid groups, closure operation, Markov theorem, and exchange move. Then I will introduce the Burau representation, and discuss its application to reducibiliy and exchangeability of braids.