Special Lecture: Equivariant Topology in Combinatorics

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Speaker:

Dora Woodruff - Harvard AB 2024

My thesis discusses a bridge between equivariant topology and combinatorics. The kind of problem I look at is an inherently discrete problem which can be solved by translating the problem into showing the nonexistence of a certain map of topological spaces. We will see examples stemming from graph theory, such as the Lovász Conjecture discrete geometry, such as the Randakumar and Rao Conjecture, and general combinatorics.