Departmental Colloquium
Simon Thomas
Rutgers University
A Descriptive View of Geometric Group Theory
Abstract: Gromov's geometric group theory seeks to classify
finitely generated groups in terms of the ``large scale''
geometry of their Cayley graphs. At first glance, this program
appears to be even more difficult that that of classifying finitely
generated groups up to isomorphism. In this talk, after
introducing some of the basic notions of geometric group
theory and descriptive set theory, I will
consider the question of whether this is indeed the case.
Thursday October 21, 2010 at 3:00 PM in SEO 636