The New York Group Theory Seminar

October 9 Gilbert Baumslag, CCNY

Title: Some unanswered questions to think about

October 16 Charles Miller III, Melbourne University

Title: Finitely presented residually free groups

October 23 Alexei Miasnikov, McGill University

Title: Limits of groups, Cantor-Bendixon rank, and Krull dimension

October 30 Tullia Dymarz, Yale University

Title: Bilipschitz equivalence is not equivalent to quasi-isometric   equivalence for finitely generated groups

November 6 Lucas Sabalka, Binghamton University

Title: Braid Groups on Graphs

November 13 Dmytro Savchuk, Binghamton University

Title: Automata generating free products of groups of order 2

November 20 Tatiana Smirnova-Nagnibeda, Université de Genève

Title: Schreier graphs of self-similar groups

November 27 No Seminar

Thanksgiving

December 4   Manhattan Algebra Day

December 11 Melanie Stein, Trinity College

Title: A tame 1-combing for Thompson's Group F.

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

 Title: The Dehn function of SL (n,Z)

Additional Details to be announced as they become available

Fridays at 4:00 p.m.
Tea served beforehand at 3:30 p.m. in Mathematics Lounge, 4th floor
Department of Mathematics, CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, 5th Floor, Room 5417

The New York Group Theory Seminar is being supported by the Deans of Science and Engineering of the City College of New York. It is part of the overall effort of CAISS, the Center for Algorithms and Interactive Scientific Software.

Questions about the Seminar or website may be sent to Olga Mikhlina.