Geometric Group Theory
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Organizer
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Prof. Alessandra Iozzi, Prof. Marc Burger, Prof. Urs Lang
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Time
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Wednesdays 10am-1pm
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Place
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HG G 19.2
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Description
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Participants present and discuss a paper/topic of their choice over two or three sessions
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Schedule
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Date
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Speaker
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What about
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References
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September 25
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Pascal Rolli
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Mineyev's recent proof of the Hanna Neumann Conjecture
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October 2
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Pascal Rolli
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Continuation; featuring leafages, veins and Γ-forests.
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October 9
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Alessandro Sisto
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Mapping class groups, the curve complex and its connectedness.
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October 16
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Alessandro Sisto
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The curve complex is hyperbolic for genus at least 2, following Hensel-Przytycki-Webb.
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October 23
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Benjamin Miesch
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Criterion for Cannon's conjecture recently published by Vladimir Markovic.
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Benjamin's master thesis
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October 30
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Benjamin Miesch
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Cannon's conjecture continued.
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November 6
in HG E21
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John MacKay
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Cheeger-Kleiner's proof that the Heisenberg group does not bi-Lipschitz embed into L^1, and why that's interesting
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November 13
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Carlos Alberto de la Cruz Mengual
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Shalom-Tao's qualitative proof of Gromov's polynomial growth theorem
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Hand-out
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November 20
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Carlos Alberto de la Cruz Mengual
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Second part
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November 27
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Carlos Alberto de la Cruz Mengual
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Third part
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December 4
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Stephan Tornier
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Hilbert fifth problem
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December 11
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Stephan Tornier
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Second part
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