Math 662 (Seminar in Algebra)

Volodymyr Nekrashevych

Class hours

  MWF 10:20-11:10 AM    BLOC 163


Course Syllabus

Homeworks

  1. Solve the following probles from the lecture nots: Problems 2.1, 2.3, 2.5-2.8.
  2. Solve problems 4.1-4.4 on page 27.
  3. Solve problems 5.1 and 5.2 (in "Iterated monodromy groups")

Lectures

  1. Group actions
  2. Cayley and Schreier graphs
  3. Dynamical systems
  4. Expanding maps
  5. Iterated monodromy groups
  6. Self-similar groups
  7. Limit dynamical systems of contracting groups
  8. Hyperbolic dynamical systems

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