New York Group Theory Seminar
Spring 2007
Fridays at 4 p.m.

Department of Mathematics
CUNY, Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street

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

• February 2nd Alexei Miasnikov (McGill University and Stevens Institute of Technology)
  Free actions, infinite words, and elimination processes
  abstract

• February 9th Nikolay Romanovskiy (Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk, Russia)
  On Algebraic Geometry over Soluble Groups
  abstract

• February 16th Vitalii A. Roman'kov (Omsk State University, Omsk, Russia)
  On the automorphism groups of the free metabelian Lie algebras
  abstract

• February 23rd Jennifer Taback (Bowdoin College)
  Computing word length in alternate presentations of Thompson's group F
  abstract

• March 2nd No seminar
  

• March 9th Yves de Cornulier (Universite de Rennes 1)
  On the dimension of asymptotic cones of polycyclic and Lie groups
  abstract

• March 16th Martin Kassabov (Cornell University)
  Small presentations of finite simple groups
  abstract

• March 23rd Olga Kharlampovich (McGill University)
  Fully residually free groups and groups acting on trees
  abstract

• March 30th Anton Klyachko (Moscow University)
  Groupification of universal algebras
  abstract

• April 13th Sarah Rees (University of Newcastle)
  Group geodesics: regularity, star-freedom and local testability
  abstract

• April 20th Laura Ciobanu (Centre de Recerca Matematica, Barcelona and University of Auckland)
  Lyndon's equation and tree-free groups
  abstract

• April 27th Saul Schleimer (Rutgers University)
  Polynomial-time word problems
  abstract

Tea: 3:30 p.m. 4th Floor Mathematics Lounge
Seminar: 4 p.m. 5th Floor, Room 5417

The New York Group Theory Seminar and some of the associated conferences are supported by funds from the National Science Foundation, Dean of Science, Maria Tamargo and Dean of Engineering, Joe Barba.

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