Event № 258
Event № 258
Type: Colloquium
Name: Colloquium
Title: The Cubical Route to Understanding Groups
Speaker: Daniel Wise (McGill University)
Place:
Amado 232 (cookies are served in the faculty lounge at 15:00), Technion
Abstract:
Cube complexes have come to play an increasingly central role within geometric group theory, as their connection to right-angled Artin groups provides a powerful combinatorial bridge between geometry and algebra. This talk will introduce nonpositively curved cube complexes, and then describe the developments that have recently culminated in the resolution of the virtual Haken conjecture for 3-manifolds, and simultaneously dramatically extended our understanding of many infinite groups.
SubmittedBy:
Seminar/Colloquium Moderator
EventLink: Event № 258