Group Theory International Webinar

Scientific Committee:

Gilbert Baumslag ,The City College of NY

Rostislav Grigorchuk,Texas A&M

Alexei Miasnikov, Stevens Institute

Mark Sapir, Vanderbilt

Organizing Committee:

Murray Elder, Univ. of Newcastle (Aus)

Bob Gilman, Stevens Institute

Alexei Miasnikov , Stevens Institute

Alex Myasnikov, Stevens Institute

Denis Serbin, Stevens Institute

Alexander Ushakov, Stevens Institute

Contact Information:

Denis Serbin
email: dserbin stevens.edu
phone: (201) 216-5425

Our sponsors:

Seminar Schedule Fall 2015

Oct 8.    Mahmood Sohrabi (Stevens Institute of Technology)
               "On groups elementarily equivalent to T_n(R)"
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Dec 3.    Laura Ciobanu (Université de Neuchâtel)
               "Conjugacy growth and hyperbolicity"
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Dec 10.    Dominik Gruber (Université de Neuchâtel)
               "Infinitely presented graphical small cancellation groups"
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Dec 17.    Anton Klyachko (Moscow State University)
               "Large and symmetric"
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Seminar Schedule Spring 2015

Feb 5.    Svetla Vassileva (Concordia University, Canada)
               "Logspace and compressed word computation in finitely generated nilpotent groups"
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Feb 19.    Funda Gul (Stevens Institute of Technology)
               "Magnus embedding and algorithmic problems in groups of the form F/N^d"
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Mar 5.    Robert Gilman (Stevens Institute of Technology)
               "Verifying Biautomaticity"
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Mar 26.    Olga Kharlampovich (Hunter College, CUNY)
               "Algorithmic questions for Γ-limit groups, where Γ is a torsion-free hyperbolic group"
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Apr 16.    Volker Diekert (Universität Stuttgart, Germany)
               "Equations in free groups and EDT0L languages"
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Seminar Schedule Fall 2014

Oct 2.    Jan Cannizzo (Stevens Institute of Technology)
               "An introduction to sofic structures"
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Oct 16.    Nicholas Touikan (Stevens Institute of Technology)
               "On some algorithmic problems in nilpotent groups"
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Nov 6.    Khalid Bou-Rabee (City College of New York, CUNY)
               "Linear groups with Borel's property"
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Nov 13.    Andrey Nikolaev (Stevens Institute of Technology)
               "Knapsack Problems in Products of Groups"
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Nov 20.    Artem Shevlyakov (Omsk State University, Russia)
               "Compactness properties of systems of equations"
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Dec 4.    Alejandra Garrido Angulo (University of Oxford, UK)
               "Branch groups: groups that look like trees"
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Seminar Schedule Spring 2014

Feb 6.    Inna Bumagin (Carleton University, Canada)
               "Zⁿ-free groups are CAT(0)"
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Feb 20.    Yago Antolin Pichel (Vanderbilt University)
               "Cayley graphs of relatively hyperbolic groups"
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Mar   6.    Rémi Coulon (Vanderbilt University)
               "Partial periodic quotients of the mapping class group"
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Apr 3.    Oleg Bogopolski (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany)
               "Subgroup conjugacy separability for surface groups"
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Apr 17.    Richard Weidmann (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany)
               "Nielsen equivalence in a class of random groups"
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Seminar Schedule Fall 2013

Oct 3.    Dmytro Savchuk (University of South Florida)
               "An Example of an Automatic Graph of Intermediate Growth"
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Oct 17.    Anton Klyachko (Moscow State University, Russia)
               "Fancy divisibility in Group Theory"
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Oct 31.    Svetla Vassileva (McGill University)
               "Logarithmic space complexity and the conjugacy problem"
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Nov 14.    Pascal Weil (CNRS and Université de Bordeaux I, France)
               "Stallings graphs for quasi-convex subgroups of automatic groups"
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Dec 5.    Tara Brough (University of St Andrews, Scotland)
               "Solvable poly-context-free groups"
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Seminar Schedule Spring 2013

Feb 14.    Mahmood Sohrabi (Stevens Institute of Technology)
               "On the elementary theory of finitely generated nilpotent and polycyclic groups"
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Feb 28.    Markus Lohrey (Institut für Informatik (FMI) Universität Leipzig, Germany)
               "Rational subsets of wreath products"
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Mar 14.    Murray Elder (University of Newcastle, Australia)
               "Some results about growth and cogrowth for finitely generated groups"
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Mar 28.    Igor Lysenok (Steklov Institute of Mathematics, Moscow, Russia)
               "Quadratic equations in free monoids with involution and surface train tracks"
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Apr 11.    Volker Diekert (Universität Stuttgart, Germany)
               "Log-space computations in graph products"
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May 9.    Benjamin Steinberg (City College of New York, CUNY)
               "Hyperplane arrangements, flag complexes and monoid cohomology"
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Seminar Schedule Fall 2012

Sep 13.    Doron Puder (Hebrew University, Israel)
               "Measure preserving words are primitive"
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Sep 27.    Ashot Minasyan (University of Southampton, UK)
               "Tits alternatives for graph products"
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Oct 11.    Shane O'Rourke (Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland)
               "Free affine actions on linear Λ-trees"
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Oct 25.    Martin Bridson (University of Oxford, UK)
               "On the nilpotent genus of groups"
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Nov 8.    Laura Ciobanu (Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
               "Geodesic growth in right-angled Artin and even Coxeter groups"
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Nov 20.    Yago Antolin Pichel (University of Southampton, UK)
               "Some generalizations of one-relator groups"
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Dec 6.    Oleg Bogopolski (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany)
               "An algorithm for finding a basis of the fixed point subgroup of an
            automorphism of a free group"
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Seminar Schedule Spring 2012

Feb 2.    Marston Conder (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
               "Distinguishing triangle groups by their finite quotients"
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Feb 16.    Andrey Nikolaev (Stevens Institute of Technology)
               "Verbal subgroups of hyperbolic groups have infinite width"
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Mar 1.    Susan Hermiller (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
               "Stackable groups"
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Mar 29.    Olga Kharlampovich (Hunter College, CUNY)
               "Definable subsets in hyperbolic groups"
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Apr 12.    Volodymyr Nekrashevych (Texas A&M University)
               "Groups associated with polynomial iterations"
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Apr 26.    Rostislav Grigorchuk (Texas A&M University)
               "On topological full groups of minimal homeomorphisms of a Cantor set"
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May 10.    Lewis Bowen (Texas A&M University)
               "Invariant random subgroups"
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Seminar Schedule Fall 2011

Sep 22.    Igor Mineyev (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
               "Leafages: How to prove the Hanna Neumann Conjecture"
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Oct 6.    Sarah Rees (University of Newcastle, UK)
               "Artin groups of large type"
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Oct 20.    Enric Ventura (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
               "The conjugacy problem in automaton groups is not solvable"
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Nov 3.    Vitaly Roman'kov (Omsk State University, Russia)
               "Algorithmic theory of solvable groups"
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Seminar Schedule Spring 2011

Jan 20.    Henry Wilton (Caltech)
               "One-ended subgroups of graphs of free groups"
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Feb 3.    Alexei Miasnikov (Stevens Institute of Technology)
               "Dehn Monsters"
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Feb 17.    Chloe Perin (Université de Strasbourg, France)
               "Homogeneity of the free group"
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Mar 3.    Tara Davis (Vanderbilt University)
               "Distortion in Wreath Products of Cyclic Groups"
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Mar 17. Finitely Presented Solvable Groups Conference Mar 17-18
No Webinar Talk Scheduled
Mar 31.    Mikhail Ershov (University of Virginia)
               "Golod-Shafarevich groups"
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Apr 14.    Abderezak Ould Houcine (Université de Lyon, France)
               "Algebraic & definable closure in free groups"
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Apr 28.    Andrei Nikolaev (Stevens Institute of Technology)
               "Membership problem in groups acting freely on Z^n-trees"
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Seminar Schedule Spring 2010

Mar 18.    Vitalii Roman'kov (Omsk State University, Russia)
               "Asymptotic densities of solvable equations over groups"
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Mar 25.    Moon Duchin (Tufts University)
               "The geometry of spheres in free abelian groups"
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Apr 1.    Volodymyr Nekrashevych (Texas A&M University)
               "Simplicial approximations of the Julia sets using Group Theory"
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Apr 8.    Anton A. Klyachko (Moscow State University, Russia)
               "One-relator relative presentations and hyperbolicity"
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Apr 15.    Ben Burton (University of Queensland, Australia)
               "Fast, faster, fastest: Algorithms in cryptography and bioinformatics"
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Apr 22.    Mark Sapir (Vanderbilt University)
               "Conjugacy growth functions of groups"
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Apr 29.    Dan Segal (University of Oxford, UK)
               "Profinite groups: algebra and topology"
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May 13.    Dmytro Savchuk (Binghamton University)
               "Automata generating free products of groups of order 2"
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May 20.    Lewis Bowen (Texas A&M University)
               "Free Groups in Lattices"
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May 27.    Ivan A. Dynnikov (Moscow State University, Russia)
               "Geometric approach to the braid conjugacy problem"
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June 10.    Maurice Chiodo (The University of Melbourne)
               "The value of information in algebraic and geometric decision problems"
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For information on the website or other questions please contact
Alex Myasnikov: amyasnik@stevens.edu
(201) 216-8598
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, NJ