Time and Place

• Place: Milner 317
• Time: Wednesdays 2:00p.m.--3:00p.m.

Schedule

• 22nd January 2003
  Speaker: Mark Sapir of Vanderbilt University
  Title: Isoperimetric functions of groups, connections between group theory,topology and computer science. Abstract.
• 23rd January 2003
  Speaker: Mark Sapir of Vanderbilt University
  Title: Non-amenable groups without free subgroups. Abstract.
• 29th January 2003
  Speaker: Tullio G. Ceccherini-Silberstein of the Universita del Sannio di Benevento
  Title: Entropy of symbolic dynamical systems and of formal languages. Abstract.
• 5th February 2003
  Speaker: Andrzej Zuk of University of Chicago
  Title: On the asymptotic properties of the Laplace operator and the Cheeger constant on graphs and surfaces. Abstract.
• 26th February 2003
  Speaker: Laurent Bartholdi of University of California at Berkeley
  Title: A group of non-uniform exponential growth. Abstract.
• 19th March 2003
  Speaker: Tatiana Smirnova-Nagnibeda of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm
  Title: Ergodic properties of boundary actions. Abstract.
• 26th March 2003
  Speaker: Stas Smirnov of KTH, Stockholm
  Title: Dimer Models on Planar Graphs (after R. Kenyon)
• 2nd April 2003
  Speaker: Rostislav Grigorchuk of Texas A&M University
  Title: Spectra of fractal groups and the Atiyah Conjecture. Abstract.
• 9th April 2003
  Speaker: Roman Mikhailov of the Steklov Institute in Moscow
  Title: Dimension subgroups and group homologies. Abstract.
  
• 23rd April 2003
  Speaker: Catherine Yan of Texas A&M University
  Title: Apollonian Circle Packings: Geometry and Groups.  Abstract.