Pierre Guillot

Scientific, Seminar
Topology Seminar: Pierre Guillot (Strasbourg/PIMS)
October 20, 2010
University of British Columbia
There is a general cohomology defined by Sweedler for co-commutative Hopf algebras, generalizing the usual cohomology of a group or a Lie algebra. Recently it was discovered that low-dimensional groups could be defined without the co-commutativity...
Scientific, Seminar
Topology Seminar: Pierre Guillot (Strasbourg/PIMS)
October 27, 2010
University of British Columbia
I am going to explain how representations of the braid groups endowed with a compatible symplectic form give rise to link invariants with values in the Witt ring of the field considered. The construction makes use of Maslov indices. In the end, using...
Scientific, Seminar
PIMS/WMAX Postdoctoral Colloquium: Pierre Guillot (PIMS-UBC)
November 25, 2010
University of British Columbia
The quadratic reciprocity law (dating back to Gauss) cute result of algebra letting you decide almost instantly whether a given integer is a square modulo a prime. This theorem is famous for having about 100 different proofs, and counting. I'll...