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
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)
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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.