Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec

6 novembre 2014 de 16 h 00 à 18 h 00 (heure de Montréal/HNE) Sur place

The Cubical Route to Understanding Groups

Colloque par Dani Wise (McGill University)

Cube complexes have come to play an increasingly central role within geometric group theory, as their connection to right-angled Artin groups provides a powerful combinatorial bridge between geometry and algebra. This talk will primarily aim to introduce nonpositively curved cube complexes, and then describe some of the developments that have recently culminated in the resolution of the virtual Haken conjecture for 3-manifolds, and simultaneously dramatically extended our understanding of many infinite groups.

Adresse

CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214