Date: Wednesday, 16 November 2022
Time: 3.30 pm
Venue: Seminar Hall
Carpentry, geometry, and category theory
Anand Deopurkar
Australian National University, Canberra.
16-11-22

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Abstract

Around the year 2000, multiple groups of mathematicians settled a long-standing open question. They proved that a carpenter's rule placed in the plane in any configuration can be straightened without bending or overlapping. The ideas in the proof have unexpected application to a problem in categorical representation theory (work in progress with Asilata Bapat and Anthony Licata). I will explain these ideas and the application.