The curve complex on a nonorientable surface

Mustafa Korkmaz, Middle East Technical University

The study of the mapping class group of an orientable surface via its
action on the curve complex was initiated by Nikolai Ivanov, who
proved that for most orientable surfaces, the natural map from the
mapping class group to the automorphism group of the curve complex is
an isomorphism. This remarkable result has been extended in various
directions since then. In this talk, I am planning to give an outline
of the proof of the nonorientable version of this result, which is a
joint work with Ferihe Atalan.