November 25, 2024
11 a.m. CET
Seminar room - 3rd floor
Abstract This talk will be an introduction to the $K(\pi, 1)$ conjecture, a 50-year-old open problem on the topology of configuration spaces associated with Coxeter and Artin groups. Then I will give a high-level overview of combinatorial approaches to this conjecture which led to its solution in the spherical and affine cases.