UWO Mathematics Calendar

Week of January 15, 2017
Monday, January 16

Geometry and Topology

Time: 15:30
Room: MC 107
Speaker: Christin Bibby (Western)
Title: A Leray model for the Orlik-Solomon algebra

We give a sequence of combinatorial models (CDGAs) for the Orlik-Solomon algebra of a matroid, arising from a sequence of combinatorial blowups. In the case that the matroid is complex realizable, each is a model in the sense of rational homotopy theory, arising from the Leray spectral sequence associated to the inclusion of the projective complement into a certain projective variety. This is joint work with Graham Denham and Eva Maria Feichtner.