Graduate Geometry, Topology and Dynamics Seminar
Michael Siler
UIC
Paradoxical Decompositions and Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds
Abstract: This is the first of two talks about a paper by Culler and Shalen that uses a paradoxical decomposition of a free group and the
2-sphere to get explicit lower bounds on the Margulis number and volume of a large class of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
Wednesday September 14, 2011 at 3:00 PM in SEO 612