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New York Group Theory Cooperative

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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


February 1 Ross Geoghegan, Binghamton University
Title: Modules over groups of isometries


February 8 A.V. Mikhalev, Moscow University
Title: Isomorphisms and elementary equivalence of linear groups.


February 15 Indira Chatterji, Ohio State University
Title: Median Spaces


February 22 Canceled due to weather


February 29 Misha Gromov, Courant Institute of NYU and IHES, Paris
Title: Linearized Isoperimetry


March 7 Kim Ruane, Tufts University
Title: The Automorphism Group of a Right-angled Coxeter Group


March 14 George Havas, University of Queensland, Australia
Title: Behind and beyond the F(a,b,c) conjecture.


March 21 No Seminar


March 28 Lee Mosher, Rutgers University, Newark
Title: Geometry of mapping class groups


April 4 Ki Hyoung Ko, KAIST, Korea
Title: Graph braid groups and right-angled Artin group


April 11 Lars Louder Rutgers University, Newark
Title: Krull dimension for limit groups


April 18 Conference on Open Problems in Group Theory
City College of New York



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 Mary Himmelstein.