North British Geometric Group Theory Seminar

    North British Geometric Group Theory Seminar on 7th July 2010 at the University of Nottingham.
    • 12.30 Lunch/coffee (meet at maths and physics building).

      Move to Pope building rom C18

    • 13.30 Alina Vdovina (Newcastle) Groups acting on buildings and their applications
    • 14-45 Aditi Kar (Southampton) Relative ends and splitting theorems for groups
    • 15-45 Tea/Coffee
    • 16.15 Arye Juhasz (Technion) Applications of word combinatorics in combinatorial group theory
    • Early evening meal in Nottingham restaurant.
    Please let Martin Edjvet know if you are staying for the early evening meal. His office number in Nottingham is C302.

    Abstracts:

    • Alina Vdovina

      We'll discuss groups acting cocompactly on buildings and their finite quotients. These groups turned out to have numerous applications to expander graph constructions, algebraic geometry and small cancellation theory.