| Monday, March 02 Geometry and Combinatorics Time: 15:30 Room: MC 108 Speaker: Graham Denham (Western) Title: Katz's proof of Rota-Heron-Welsh part V |
| Friday, March 06 Graduate Seminar Time: 16:30 Room: MC 108 Speaker: Tao Gong (Western) Title: On sections of quotient maps by linear group actions For a group action $G \curvearrowright X$, the canonical quotient map $\pi \colon X \to X/G$ does not admit a section in general. It is well-known that when $G \subset O(n)$ is generated by reflections, the map $\pi$ admits a section. In this lecture, we will show that the converse is also true. More generally, if $G$ is a properly discontinuous subgroup of the Euclidean group and $\pi$ admits a section, then $G$ is generated by affine reflections. |