Tuesdays & Thursdays 10:10am – 11:25am, MLT 206 Speaker Editor January 25, 27 Tim Riley Russ Thompson Bridson's world of groups February 1, 3 Tim Riley Yash Lodha Bridson's world of groups ctd. February 8 Tim Riley Victor Kostyuk Well behaved subgroups of non-positively curved groups February 10, 15 Owen Baker Margarita Amchislavska Rips' construction February 17, 22 Russ Thompson Juan Alonso Subgroups of Fn × Fn February 24, March 1 Yash Lodha Victor Kostyuk Finiteness properties and subgroups of Fn × ··· × Fn March 3 Guest speaker: Matt Clay Victor Kostyuk (to write) A CAT(0) group containing a finitely presented subgroup with infinitely many conjugacy classes of finite-order elements March 8 Guest speaker: Sam Kim Juan Alonso (to write) Does every 1-ended word-hyperbolic group contain a hyperbolic surface group? March 10, 15 Margarita Amchislavska Tim Riley Bestvina–Brady Groups — subgroups of right–angled Artin groups March 17 No meeting — Go to this conference in NYC or this one in Texas! March 22, 24 No meetings — Spring break March 29, 31 Juan Alonso Owen Baker Subdirect products of surface groups or limit groups or hyperbolic groups April 5, 7 Victor Kostyuk Yash Lodha The Tits alternative for hyperbolic groups and for CAT(0) groups April 12, 14 Tim Riley Margarita Amchislavska Distortion of finitely presented (or, better, finite–rank free) subgroups of CAT(0) or hyperbolic groups April 19 Guest speaker: Pallavi Dani Margarita Amchislavska (to write) Dehn functions in subgroups of CAT(0) groups April 21 Russ Thompson Tim Riley Distortion of finitely presented (or, better, finite–rank free) subgroups in CAT(0) or hyperbolic groups ctd. April 26, 28 Yash Lodha Russ Thompson Finitely presented subgroups of hyperbolic groups May 3, 5 Owen Baker & Victor Kostyuk Victor Kostyuk & Owen Baker Cannon–Thurston Maps Office hours by appointment