Introduction to operads
Presenter
January 27, 2014
Keywords:
- little n-disk operad
- Lie operad
- Koszul duality
- etale homotopy groups
- Grothendieck-Teichmuller group
- Galois theory
MSC:
- 55P48
- 55P25
- 55P91
- 18D50
- 18D20
Abstract
The talk will explain what an operad is, give some examples, and illustrate how operads come up in various mathematical settings.