Thursday, February 21, 4:10-5:00pm
3866 EH
Florian Block (UM)
Hyperplane Arrangements, Matroids and Homology

We'll continue our field trip through hyperplane arrangement land. We'll view arrangements and their intersection lattice as (oriented) matroids and geometric lattices. This will lead to the homology of a matroid. We will see that the `“ntersection poset complex" is essentially a wedge of sphere, where the number of spheres is given by the M\"obius function.