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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 6 Ekaterina Blagoveshchenskaya, St. Petersburg Polytechnical University
Title: Almost completely decomposable groups and their endomorphism rings

February 13 No Seminar


February 20 Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University
Title: Actions of automorphism groups of free groups on homology spheres and acyclic manifolds


February 27 Bernhard Kroen, University of Vienna and The City College of New York
Title: Vertex cuts


March 6 Mahmood Sohrabi, Carleton University
Title: Characterizing groups elementarily equivalent to a free nilpotent group of finite rank


March 13  Alexander V. Mikhalev, Moscow State University
Title: Prime radical of linear groups and Lie algebras


March 20 Enric Ventura, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Title: Computing endo-fixed closures in free groups


March 27 Derek Robinson, UI Urbana
Title: Quotients of generalized Baumslag-Solitar groups


April 3 Zoran Sunic, Texas A&M University
Title: Chinese rings, coverings, and iterated things


April 10 No Seminar
Spring Break

April 17 No Seminar
Spring Break


April 24 Charlie Sims, Rutgers University
Title: A Tale of Two Groups


May 1 Gretchen Ostheimer, Hofstra University
Title: On subgroups of free metabelian groups



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.