Graduate Student / Postdoc Seminar

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Which subspaces can be the fixed points of a finite group acting on a space?

Speaker: Sylvain Cappell, Courant Institute

Location: Warren Weaver Hall 1302

Date: Friday, February 16, 2018, 1 p.m.

Synopsis:

We introduce and survey some results, old and new, on what subspaces can be the fixed point set of a given finite group acting on a space, e.g., of symmetries of discs, spheres, etc.