27-Feb-98

S.V.Chmutov
"Ordering the braid group"
(after R.Fenn, M.Greene, D.Rolfsen, C.Rourke, B.Wiest)

The talk is devoted to the description of the recently discovered 
linear order in the set of all braids with a given number of strings, 
compatible with the multiplication of braids on the right.