Braid group: a graphical method of transforming braid words

Prof. Seiichi Kamada from the Osaka City University, Japan will deliver a lecture on "Braid group: a graphical method of transforming braid words" at 12:00 PM on Thursday, 30th Oct. 2014 in Lecture Hall-3, IIT Ropar. 

You are cordially invited to attend the colloquium.

Abstract 

Braid group has a well known group presentation called Artin’s presentation.  A braid word is a word consisting of the generators and their inverse elements.  We introduce Artin’s presentation and a graphical method of transforming braid words presenting the same element in the braid group.