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New York Group Theory Cooperative

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The New York Group Theory Cooperative is an association of group theorists based at The City College of the City University of New York It is supported by the Algebra and Computational Mathematics sections of the National Science Foundation

The New York Group Theory Seminar


September 26 Gilbert Baumslag, The City College of New York
Title: Cyclically Pinched Groups



October 3 Olga Kharlampovich, McGill University
Title: Fully Residually Free Groups, A Survey


October 10 Seminar Canceled
Announcement: The seminar is canceled due to a Conference in honor of Ben Fine's 60th Birthday


October 17 Delaram Kahrobaei, City University of New York
Title: Residual Solubility and True Prosoluble Completion of a Group



October 24 Mark Feighn, Rutgers University
Title: A hyperbolic Out(F_n)-complex


October 31  Ruth Charney, Brandeis University
Title: Automorphism Groups of Right-Angled Artin Groups


November 7 Steve Majewicz, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY
Title: Classes of Exponential A-groups


November 14 Moira Chas, Stony Brook University
Title: Minimal intersection of curves on surfaces and combinatorial group theory


November 21  John Meier, Lafayette College
Title: Snapshots of Buildings


December 5 Marcos Zyman, BMCC
Title: Localization and IA-automorphisms of nilpotent groups


Additional Details to be announced as they become available

Fridays at 4:00 p.m.
Tea served beforehand at 3:30 p.m. in Mathematics Lounge, 4th floor
Department of Mathematics, CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, 5th Floor, Room 5417

The New York Group Theory Seminar is being supported by the Deans of Science and Engineering of the City College of New York. It is part of the overall effort of CAISS, the Center for Algorithms and Interactive Scientific Software.

Questions about the Seminar or website may be sent to Olga Mikhlina.