Noncommutative Geometry Seminar

Date: February 1, 2017

Time: 2:00PM - 2:50PM

Location: BLOC 628

Speaker: Alexander Engel, Texas A&M University

Title: Strong Novikov conjecture and combinatorics of groups

Abstract: We will introduce higher-order Dehn functions of groups, and we will outline the main idea how polynomial bounds on these functions imply the strong Novikov conjecture. We will also discuss why, e.g., automatic groups belong to this class of groups.