Schedule
Tuesdays & Thursdays 10:10am–11:25am,
MLT 230
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Speaker |
Blog editor |
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| January 22, 27, 29 |
Tim |
Aditya |
Background: history, amalgams, embeddings and decidability |
| February 3, 5 |
Tim |
Thomas, Frederik |
Background: history, computing with presentations |
| February 10, 12 |
Amin |
Kristen |
non-Hopfian groups & residual finiteness |
| February 17 |
February break |
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| February 19 |
Amin & Kristen |
Kristen & Amin |
Residual finiteness of surface groups; depth |
| February 24, 26 |
Aditya |
Amin |
Free groups & Marshall Hall's Theorem |
| March 3, 5 |
Kristen |
Thomas |
Peculiar groups |
| March 10, 12 |
Benjamin |
Teddy |
One-relator groups – Magnus's solution to the Word Problem etc. |
| March 17, 19 |
Teddy |
Benjamin |
One-relator groups – Wise's answer to Baumslag's question |
| March 24, 26 |
Frederik |
Amin |
Metabelian groups |
| March 31, April 2 |
Spring break |
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| April 7, 9 |
Thomas |
Aditya |
Wreath products |
| April 14, 16 |
Kristen & Aditya |
Aditya & Kristen |
parafree groups; residually torsion-free nilpotent groups |
| April 21 |
Gretchen Ostheimer |
Benjamin (write), Frederik (edit) |
Direct decompositions of finitely generated torsion-free nilpotent groups |
| April 23 |
Tim |
Thomas |
Isoperimetric inequalities and the homology of groups |
| April 28, 30 |
Amin & Teddy |
Teddy & Amin |
Algebraic geometry in combinatorial group theory |
| May 5 |
Delaram Kahrobaei |
Frederik (write), Benjamin (edit) |
Baumslag's contributions to Group Theoretic Cryptography |
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