Texas A&M University, Department of Mathematics
Groups
And
Dynamics Seminar
Fall 2006
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
- 6th of September, 2006
Speaker: Volodymyr Nekrashevych of Texas A&M University
Title: Plane-filling
curves and self-similar groups. Abstract.
- 13th
of September, 2006
Speaker: Gilles Pisier of
Texas A&M University
Title: Amenability versus Unitarizability, part I.
Abstract.
- 20th
of September, 2006
Speaker: Gilles Pisier of
Texas A&M University
Title: Amenability versus Unitarizability, part
II. Abstract.
- 27th
of September, 2006
Speaker: Mikael Pichot of
IHES, France
Title: Equivalence relations, quasi-periodicity,
and triangle buildings. Abstract.
- 4th
of October, 2006
Speaker: Yaroslav Lavreniuk
of Kiyv State University, Ukraine
Title: On the local isometry groups of
rooted tree boundaries. Abstract.
- 11th
of October, 2006
Speaker: David Kerr
of Texas A&M University
Title: Generic dynamics and property T. Abstract.
- 18th
of October, 2006
Speaker: Said Sidki
of Universidade de Brasília, Brazil
Title: Virtual endomorphisms of groups. Abstract.
- 25th
of October, 2006
Speaker: Zoran Šunić
of Texas A&M University
Title: Hausdorff dimension in a family of
self-similar groups. Abstract.
- 1st
of November, 2006
Speaker: James Belk of
Texas A&M University
Title: Conjugacy and dynamics in Thompson's groups.
Abstract.
- 8th
of November, 2006
Speaker: Romain Tessera of
Vanderbilt University
Title: Compression of uniform embeddings of
groups into Hilbert spaces. Abstract.
- 18th
of November
Workshop: Groups and
Dynamics. Schedule
and abstracts.
- 29th
of November, 317 Milner Hall, 3:00-3:50
Speaker: Vadim Kaimanovich
of International University Bremen, Germany
Title: Ergodic properties of boundary actions and
Nielsen's method. Abstract.
- 29th
of November, 317 Milner Hall, 4:00-4:50
Speaker: Igor Lysenok of
Steklov Institute of Mathematics, Moscow, Russia
Title: A geometric view on equations over free
groups. Abstract.
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