The Math/Stats Colloquium continues this week with Catherine Pfaff (UCSB) on “Outer Space and the Outer Automorphism Group of the Free Group.”  A common strategy for studying a group is to study some object that it acts on and how it acts on this object, and the speaker’s favorite group is the outer automorphism group of the free group.  This talk will introduce this group and the object, Culler-Vogtmann Outer Space, that it acts on.

Background: One course in abstract algebra.

• Date: Fri Sep 16
• Time: 2:30-3:20pm
• Room: MH320
• Snacks: 2:00pm in MH331B

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Hope to see you there!

Upcoming events:

• Fri Sep 23: Cristina Tortora, SJSU
  “Recent developments in model-based clustering”
• Fri Oct 07: Daniel Brinkman, SJSU
  TBA