Tomorrow, we have Danny Calegari joining us. His title and abstract are below. The zoom link for the seminar is below. Also, I will be in MSCS 445 and plan to have the talk projected there for those interesting in watching the talk with other people.

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Homological stability of some big mapping class groups

Speaker: Danny Calegari, University of Chicago

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Abstract: Many surfaces of infinite type satisfy a kind of topological stability: the operation of boundary summing with certain surfaces of infinite type does not change their homeomorphism type. This phenomenon is often reflected in homological stability for mapping class groups, and gives techniques to help compute their homology. We illustrate this method with an example where it gives a complete answer: the homology of the mapping class group of the disk (resp. plane) minus a Cantor set is trivial (resp. is isomorphic to the homology of CP∞). This is joint work with Lvzhou Chen and Nathalie Wahl. This is a virtual talk. Contact Neil Hoffman for the zoom link

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Neil R. Hoffman

Assistant Professor

Department of Mathematics

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Oklahoma State University

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