"Asymptotically good families," Farshid Hajir (U. Mass.)

I will describe the recurring theme of asymptotically good
families in the study of codes, graphs, lattices, 3-manifolds, number
fields, curves over finite fields, ...   In many of these contexts, the
"goodness" of the family is encapsulated in properties of an associated
group.  In this expository talk, I will describe many contexts in which
asymptotically good families arise and give an axiomatization of the
concept, inviting us to look for them in other situations, especially in
the context of pro-p groups.