New York Group Theory Seminar, Spring 2009

by Olga Mikhlina — last modified 2009-09-17 15:47

Winter/Spring 2009, Fridays at 4 p.m.

Department of Mathematics
CUNY, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street
5th Floor, Room 5417

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