The Math/Stats Colloquium is pleased to present the penultimate talk of the fall semester: Ian Leary (Univ. of Southampton, visiting MSRI) on “Almost finitely presented groups and their subgroups”.  A presentation is a way of describing a group.  In the 1960’s Higman found a deep connection between subgroups of finitely presented groups and computation.  In the 1990’s Bestvina and Brady found the first non-finitely presented groups that were almost finitely presented.  The speaker has recently found a lot more, and an analog of Higman’s theorem but for almost finitely presented groups; the talk will describe this progress.

Background: One semester abstract algebra.

• Date: Fri Dec 02
• Time: 2:30-3:20pm
• Room: MH320
• Snacks: 2:00pm in MH331B

For more information, click here to see the full flyer, suitable for printing and posting.

Hope to see you there!

Upcoming events:

• Fri Dec 02: Department meeting
• Fri Dec 09: Ruriko Yoshida, Naval Postgraduate School
  “Evolution and Triangles in Tree Spaces”