Texas A&M University, Department of Mathematics
Groups
And
Dynamics Seminar
Fall 2003
Time and Place
Unless otherwise stated, the Groups and Dynamics Seminar meets
- Time: Wednesdays 3:00p.m.--4:00p.m.
- Place: 216 Milner Hall
Full schedule
- 10th of September, 2003
Speaker: Miklos Abert of University of Chicago
Title: Dimension and
randomness in groups acting on rooted trees. Abstract.
- 17th of September, 2003
Speaker: Paul-Hermann Zieschang of University of Texas at
Brownsville
Title: Exchange condition
and Association Schemes. Abstract.
- 24th of September, 2003, 2:00pm, 317 Milner Hall
Speaker: Peter Kuchment of Texas A&M University
Title: Spectra of graph
operators. Abstract.
Note: Joint session with Mathematical Physics and Harmonic
Analysis Seminar, unusual time and place.
- 1st of October, 2003
Speaker: Alan Reid of University of Texas at Austin
Title: On asymmetric
hyperbolic manifolds. Abstract.
- 8th of October, 2003
Speaker: Charles Radin of University of Texas at Austin
Title: The symmetry of
densest packings. Abstract.
- 15th of October, 2003, 317 Milner Hall
Speaker: Stanislav Molchanov of University of North Carolina
at Charlotte
Title: On the spectral
radius for Markov chains and diffusion processes with applications to
random walks on groups. Abstract.
Note: unusual place.
- 22nd of October, 2003, 2:00, 317
Milner Hall
Speaker: Gilles Pisier of Texas A&M University
Title: Are unitarizable
groups amenable? Abstract.
Note: Joint session with Mathematical Physics and
Harmonic
Analysis Seminar, unusual time and place.
- 5th of November, 2003
Speaker: Alexander Ol'shanskii of Vanderbilt University and
Moscow State University
Title: On the subgroups
of free Burnside groups of large odd exponent. Abstract.
- 12th of November, 2003
Speaker: Zoran Sunik of Texas A&M University
Title: Some solvable
groups of automata. Abstract.
- 14th of November, 2003, 12:00, 317 Milner Hall
Speaker: Jon McCammond of University of California at Santa
Barbara
Title: Hypertrees and the
l2 Betti numbers of the pure symmetric
automorphism group. Abstract.
Note: unusual day, time and place.
- 19th of November, 2003
Speaker: Olga Kharlampovich of McGill University
Title: Some finiteness
results in algebraic geometry for a free group. Abstract.
- 3rd of December, 2003
Speaker: Nigel Boston of University of Wisconsin at Madison
Title: Reducing
the Fontaine-Mazur conjecture to group theory. Abstract.
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