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Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Geometric Group Theory Seminar
The Geometric Group Theory Seminar meets in PHSC 1105 on Tuesdays at 4:00 pm on weeks when there is no faculty meeting. For more information about the seminar, contact Noel Brady.
Spring 2007 Talks
01/23 Pallavi Dani Super-exponential distortion of subgroups of CAT(-1) groups
01/30
02/06 No Seminar Faculty Meeting
02/13 No Seminar Visitor Talk
02/20 No Seminar Visitor Talk
02/27 No Seminar Visitor Talk
03/06 No Seminar Faculty Meeting
03/13 Josh Barnard Super-exponential 2-dimensional Dehn functions
03/20 no semianr Spring Break
03/27 no seminar Faculty Meeting
04/03 No Seminar Faculty Meeting
04/10 Quan Tran In the House of Hyperbolicity, Quasi-convexity killed the Z x Z
04/17 Quan Tran In the House of Hyperbolicity, Quasi-convexity killed the Z x Z
04/24 William Jaco Finding planar surfaces and the word problem [starts at 5:00pm]
05/01
Fall 2006 Talks
8/29 Organizational Meeting
9/5No Seminar Faculty Meeting
9/12 Eduardo Martinez Relatively hyperbolic groups according to Osin
9/19 Matt Clay Guirardel's core for G-trees
9/26 No Seminar HMI Workshop
10/3No Seminar Faculty Meeting
10/10 Rena Levitt (UC Santa Barbara) Biautomaticity and Triangle-Square Complexes
10/17 Max Forester The Croke-Kleiner examples
10/24Matt Clay Guiradel's Core for G-trees; examples
10/31 TaraLee Mecham Hyerbolic groups which fiber in infinitely many ways
11/7No Seminar Faculty Meeting
11/14 Lars Louder (University of Utah) Krull Dimension for Limit Groups
11/21 Anne Thomas (University of Chicago) Lattices in automorphism groups of polyhedral complexes
11/28 No Talk
12/5 No Seminar Faculty Meeting
Fall 2005 Talks
9/13Noel Brady Isoperimetric exponents of subgroups of CAT(0) groups - I
9/20Noel Brady Isoperimetric exponents of subgroups of CAT(0) groups - II
9/27Noel Brady Isoperimetric exponents of subgroups of CAT(0) groups - III
10/4No Seminar Faculty Meeting
10/11Josh Barnard Short 1-ended subgroups of hyperbolic groups
10/18No Seminar Faculty Meeting
10/25Lucy Lifschitz TBA
11/1No Seminar Faculty Meeting
11/8
11/15Tara Lee Mecham Accessibility of finitely presented groups I
11/22Tara Lee Mecham Accessibility of finitely presented groups II
11/29Antara Mukherjee The Sageev construction
12/6No Seminar Faculty Meeting(?)
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