Groups and Dynamics Seminar

Time and Place

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

Schedule

• 28th of January, 2009
  Speaker: Dmytro Savchuk of Texas A&M University
  Title: Graphs related to Thompson's group F. Abstract.
  
  
• 4th of February, 2009
  Speaker: Victor Petrogradsky of Ulyanovsk State University
  Title: Types of growth for Lie algebras and groups. Abstract.
  
  
• 11th of February, 2009
  Speaker: Volodymyr Nekrashevych of Texas A&M University
  Title: On amenability of automata groups, I. Abstract.
  
  
• 18th of February, 2009
  Speaker: Volodymyr Nekrashevych of Texas A&M University
  Title: On amenability of automata groups, II. Abstract.
  
  
• 25th of February, 2009
  Speaker: Simon Guest of Baylor University
  Title: The spread of a finite group. Abstract.
  
  
• 4th of March, 2009
  Speaker: Victor Petrogradsky of Ulyanovsk State University
  Title: Self-similar Lie algebras. Abstract.
  
  
• 25th of March, 2009
  Speaker: Sang-hyun Kim of University of Texas
  Title: Surface subgroups of graph products of groups. Abstract.
  
  
• 1st of April, 2009
  Speaker: Gideon Schechtman of Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
  Title: Diamonds and super-reflexivity. Abstract.
  
  
• 8th of April, 2009
  Speaker: Victor Petrogradsky of Ulyanovsk State University
  Title: Multiple zeta functions for free abelian groups of finite rank. Abstract.
  
  
• 15th of April, 2009
  Speaker: Enrico Valdinoci of Seconda Universita di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy
  Title: Equilibrium solutions for some variational problems with group symmetries. Abstract.
  
  
• 21th of April, 2009, Tuesday, 1:00pm, at 317 Milner Hall
  Speaker: Igor Pak of University of Minnesota
  Title: MacMahon's Master Theorem and its generalizations. Abstract.
  Note: Joint with Algebra and Combinatorics Seminar
  
  
• 29th of April, 2009, 2:00
  Speaker: Michael Boshernitzan of Rice University
  Title: Diophantine propeties of interval exchange transformations. Abstract.
  
  
• 29th of April, 2009, 3:00
  Speaker: Jon Chaika of Rice University
  Title: Almost every pair of interval exchange transformations is disjoint. Abstract.