The New York Group Theory Seminar

Spring 2010, Fridays at 4:00 p.m.

Department of Mathematics
CUNY, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street
5th Floor, Room 5417

February 5 Robert Young, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques and NYU

Title: The Dehn function of SL (n,Z)

 

February 12 NO SEMINAR

Lincoln's Birthday 

February 19 Vitaly Romankov, Omsk University (Russia)
          Title: Asymptotic densities of solvable equations over groups

February 26 Mark Feighn, Rutgers-Newark (snowed out, GC closed)
           Title: Abelian subgroups of Out (F_n)

March 5        Benjamin Steinberg, Carleton University
           Title: Non-commutative integer programming

March 12       Robert Gilman, Stevens Institute of Technology
           Title: Postquantum Cryptology for Group Theorists

March 19      Jose Burillo, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
           Title: The automorphism group of Thompson's group F

March 26     Anne Thomas, University of Oxford and the University of Sydney
           Title: Covolumes of lattices in complete Kac-Moody groups

April 2           NO SEMINAR
           Spring Break

April 9           Joseph Maher, College of Staten Island (CUNY)
            Title: Generic elements in the mapping class group

April 16         Robert Bell, Michigan State University
           Title: Surface subgroups of Right-angled Artin Groups

April 23        Mark Feighn, Rutgers-Newark
           Title: Abelian subgroups of Out(F_n)

April 30         Dani Wise, McGill University
           Title: The structure of groups with a quasiconvex hierarchy

May 7             Denis Osin, Vanderbilt University
            Title: Beyond relative hyperbolicity

Additional Details to be announced as they become available

Tea Served beforehand at 3:30 pm
Mathematics Lounge, 4th Floor

The New York Group Theory Seminar and some of the associated conferences are supported by funds from the National Science Foundation, Dean of Science and Dean of Engineering.

Contact Kristina Nazimova for more information