Group Theory and Ring Theory Seminars

(The Ring Theory Seminar will not meet this year)

Group Theory Seminar - Monday 3:30-4:30 - Room 901 VV
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"