Fall 2009, Fridays at 4:15 p.m.

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

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.

Additional Details to be announced as they become available

Tea Served beforehand at 3:30 pm
Mathematics Lounge, 4th Floor

The New York Group Theory Seminar and some of the associated conferences are supported by funds from the National Science Foundation, Dean of Science and Dean of Engineering.

Contact Olga Mikhlina for more information