Texas A&M University, Department of Mathematics
Groups
and
Dynamics Seminar
Fall 2005
Time and Place
Unless otherwise stated, the Groups and Dynamics Seminar meeting
coordinates are
- Time: Wednesdays 3:00p.m.--3:50p.m.
- Place: 216 Milner Hall
Full schedule
- 31st of August, 2005
Speaker: Vladimir Lipets of Ben Gurion University, Israel
Title: Bandwidth for grid
based graphs: techniques and solutions. Abstract.
Note: this is a joint talk with Algebra
and Combinatorics Seminar
- 14th of September, 2005
Speaker: Zoran Šunik of Texas A&M University
Title: Hanoi Towers and
self-similar groups. Abstract.
- 21st of September, 2005
Speaker: Volodymyr Nekrashevych of Texas A&M University
Title: Amenable actions
of nonamenable groups. Abstract.
- 28th of September, 2005
Speaker: James Belk of Texas A&M University
Title: Forest diagrams
for Thompson's group F. Abstract.
- 12th of October, 2005
Speaker: Yaroslav Vorobets of Clay Mathematics Institute
Title: Free groups
generated by finite automata. Abstract.
- 19th of October, 2005
Speaker: François Ledrappier of University of Notre
Dame
Title: Invariant measures
for the horocycle flow on periodic surfaces. Abstract
- 26th of October, 2005
Speaker: Volodymyr
Nekrashevych of Texas A&M University
Title: On classification
of
inductive limits of direct products of alternating
groups. Abstract
- 2nd of November, 2005
Speaker: Tatiana Smirnova-Nagnibeda of Université
de
Genève
Title: Boundary actions
and
cogrowth of subgroups in free groups. Abstract.
- 16th of November, 2005
Speaker: David Kerr of Texas A&M University
Title: Dynamics and
rigidity in simple nuclear C*-algebras. Abstract.
- 23rd of November, 2005
Speaker: Volodymyr Nekrashevych of Texas A&M University
Title: Permutational
bimodules. Abstract.
- 30th of November, 2005
Speaker: Yaroslav Vorobets of Clay Mathematics Institute
Title: Substitutional
subshift related to the Grigorchuk group. Abstract.
- 7th of December, 2005
Speaker: Zoran Šunik of Texas A&M University
Title: On geodesics and
dead ends in Grigorchuk group. Abstract.
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