New York Group Theory Cooperative
The New York Group Theory Cooperative is an association of group theorists based at The City College of the City University of New York It is supported by the Algebra and Computational Mathematics sections of the National Science Foundation
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
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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