Karen Vogtmann, Lecture I - 10 February 2015
Channel: SNS Sciences
Date: 17/03/2015

Karen Vogtmann (U. of Warwick, UK and Cornell University, USA) - Lecture I 
http://www.crm.sns.it/course/4037/

Automorphism groups of free groups bear similarities to both lattices in Lie groups and to surface mapping class groups. In this minicourse we will explore the cohomology of these groups using tools from both topology and representation theory.