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Deformation Theory Seminar

Tuesday, October 17, 2006 - 3:00pm

Satyan Devadoss

Williams College

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL A7

Note change in day - Tuesday!! and time and room

We begin by looking at the remarkable moduli space of Riemann spheres, where the real points of this space are tiled by the Stasheff associahedron. The natural generalizations of this variety, seen from a configuration space viewpoint, leads to geometric blow-ups of Coxeter complexes. There exists an elegant combinatorial tiling of these spaces by the "graph-associahedra" polytopes.