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The Correspondence between Riemann Surfaces, Ribbon Graphs and Algebraic Curves over the Field of Algebraic Numbers

Student-Run Geometry/Topology Seminar

Speaker: Andy Port, Uc Davis
Location: 2112 MSB
Start time: Tue, May 31 2011, 12:10PM

I'll introduce all of these objects and show the correspondence, found at UCD by Motohico Mulase and Michael Penkava, between them. It is a surprising, useful and quite "beautiful" result. The talk should be accessible to anyone who knows what a manifold is.