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SUMMARY:The pants graph - Esme te Winkel (Warwick)
DTSTART:20181026T140000Z
DTEND:20181026T150000Z
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CONTACT:Ben Morley
DESCRIPTION:In the 80s\, Hatcher and Thurston introduced the pants graph a
  a tool to prove that the mapping class group of a closed\,\norientable su
 rface is finitely presented. The pants graph remains relevant for the stud
 y of the mapping class group\, sitting between\nthe marking graph and the 
 curve graph. A second motivation for studying the pants graph comes from T
 eichmüller theory. Brock\nshowed that the pants graph can be interpreted 
 as a combinatorial model for Teichmüller space with the Weil-Petersson me
 tric. In\nthis talk I will introduce the pants graph\, discuss some of its
  properties and state a few open questions. \n
LOCATION:MR13
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