Groups and Dynamics Seminar

Date: November 17, 2021

Time: 3:00PM - 4:00PM

Location: online

Speaker: Rachel Skipper, Ohio State University

Title: Braiding groups of homeomorphisms of Cantor sets

Abstract: We'll discuss how to braid the Grigorchuk group and other groups acting on the boundary of the tree as well as how these groups fit in to the recent developments in big mapping class groups. The talk will include works done in collaboration with Xiaolei Wu and Matthew Zaremsky.