| Group Theory Seminar - Monday 3:30-4:30 - Room 901 VV | ||
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| January 28 | Matthew Day, Univ Chicago | "Using right-angled Artin groups to interpolate between mapping class groups and linear symplectic groups" |
| February 4 | Miklos Abert, Univ Chicago | (postponed) "On the ergodic theory of profinite actions" |
| February 11 | Chris Hall, Univ Michigan | "Monodromy of degree-4 covers with simple branching" |
| February 18 | Jordan Ellenberg | "Hurwitz spaces and congruence subgroups of mapping class groups" |
| February 25 | no speaker | |
| March 3 | Seyfi Turkelli | (postponed) "The geometric fundamental group and Belyi's theorem" |
| March 10 | Seyfi Turkelli | "The geometric fundamental group and Belyi's theorem" |
| March 24 | Harris Nover | "Computation of Galois groups of 2-class towers" |
| March 31 | Charles Leedham-Green, QM London | "The coclass project; classification up to isomorphism" |
| April 3 | Mini-conference | Talks in VV B131 at 1:00, 2:30 and 3:30 PM, respectively |
| Miklos Abert, Univ Chicago | "On the ergodic theory of profinite actions" | |
| Farshid Hajir, U. Mass. Amherst | "Asymptotically good families" | |
| John Wilson, Oxford Univ | "Characterizations of solubility for finite and linear groups" | |
| April 7 | no speaker | |
| April 14 | Nigel Boston | "Advances in random p-groups" |
| April 21 | no speaker | |
| April 28 | Jordan Ellenberg | "A 'non-abelian Alexander' invariant for hyperbolic 3-manifolds" |
| May 5 | Anders Hendrickson | "Supercharacter theories of cyclic p-groups" |