Groups and Dynamics Seminar

Time and Place

• Time: Wednesdays 3:00p.m.--3:50p.m.
• Place: 216 Milner Hall

Schedule

• 30th of January, 2008
  Speaker: Zoran Šunić of Texas A&M University
  Title: Embeddings into simple groups. Abstract.
  
  
• 6th of February, 2008
  Speaker: Volodymyr Nekrashevych of Texas A&M University
  Title: On the Julia set of a rational endomorphism of CP^2. Abstract.
  
  
• 20th of February, 2008
  Speaker: Yves de Cornulier of Rennes I, France
  Title: Metabelian groups in the space of finitely generated groups. Abstract.
  
  
• 26th of March, 2008
  Speaker: Volodymyr Nekrashevych of Texas A&M University
  Title: Combinatorial models of expanding self-coverings. Abstract.
  
  
• 2nd of April, 2008
  Speaker: Henry Wilton of University of Texas
  Title: Computing solutions to systems of equations over free and hyperbolic groups. Abstract.
  
  
• 15th of April, 2008, 2:00-2:50, 216 Milner Hall
  Speaker: Andriĭ Oliĭnyk of Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State University,Ukraine
  Title: On conjugacy in groups and semigroups of automaton transformations. Abstract.
• 15th of April, 2008, 3:00-3:50, 216 Milner Hall
  Speaker: Yaroslav Lavrenyuk of Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State University,Ukraine
  Title: On measure preserving self-homeomorphisms of spherically homogeneous tree boundaries. Abstract.
  
  
• 16th of April, 2008
  Speaker: Angela Barnhill of Northwestern University
  Title: Commensurators of uniform lattices in right-angled buildings. Abstract.
  
  
• 23rd of April, 2008
  Speaker: Yaroslav Vorobets of Texas A&M University
  Title:  Polygonal billiards and Dynkin diagrams. Abstract.
  
  
• 30th of April, 2008, 3:00-3:50, 216 Milner Hall
  Speaker: Susan Hermiller of University of Nebraska
  Title: The shortest language spoken by a group. Abstract.
• 30th of April, 2008, 4:00-4:50, 216 Milner Hall
  Speaker: Martin Schmoll of Clemson University
  Title: Quadratic growth rates via modular fibers. Abstract.