Graduate Student Colloquium
Michael Siler
UIC
The Geometry of Carrier Graphs and Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds
Abstract: I will introduce carrier graphs, which are a simple tool for using the geometry of a hyperbolic 3-manifold to study generating sets of its fundamental group. I will describe how they have been used to make progress on a long standing 3-manifold problem and present some recent results on their nice geometric properties.
Monday October 15, 2012 at 4:15 PM in SEO 636