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”