Colloquium| Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Time：14:00-15:00, October 17 Thursday
Location：Room S408, IMS
Speaker: Jian Zhou, Tsinghua University
Abstract: Associahedra, also called Stasheff polytopes, are important mathematical objects that appear in many different areas in mathematics. After an inroduction of their constructions we will talk about their surprising connections to Grothendieck's dessins d'enfants and Seiberg-Witten theory.