Winter/Spring 2008, Fridays at 4 p.m.

Department of Mathematics
CUNY, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street
5th Floor, Room 5417

February 1 Ross Geoghegan, Binghamton University

Title: Modules over groups of isometries

February 8 A.V. Mikhalev, Moscow University

Title: Isomorphisms and elementary equivalence of linear groups.

February 15 Indira Chatterji, Ohio State University

Title: Median Spaces

February 22 Canceled due to weather

February 29 Misha Gromov, Courant Institute of NYU and IHES, Paris

Title: Linearized Isoperimetry

March 7 Kim Ruane, Tufts University

Title: The Automorphism Group of a Right-angled Coxeter Group

March 14 George Havas, University of Queensland, Australia

Title: Behind and beyond the F(a,b,c) conjecture.

March 21 No Seminar

March 28 Lee Mosher, Rutgers University, Newark

Title: Geometry of mapping class groups

April 4 Ki Hyoung Ko, KAIST, Korea

Title: Graph braid groups and right-angled Artin group

April 11 Lars Louder Rutgers University, Newark

Title: Krull dimension for limit groups

April 18 Conference on Open Problems in Group Theory

City College of New York

Additional Details to be announced as they become available

Tea Served beforehand at 3:30 pm
Mathematics Lounge, 4th Floor

The New York Group Theory Seminar and some of the associated conferences are supported by funds from the National Science Foundation, Dean of Science and Dean of Engineering.

Contact Olga Mikhlina for more information