Geometric Group Theory Seminar

Instructor: Prof. Khalid Bou-Rabee

Place: Rm. 4214.03 at the GC

Time: W 12:05PM-1:20PM

First meeting time: February 4th, 2015

Abstract: In this semester of the course I will cover the following topics:

• Gromov's Polynomial Growth Theorem
• Stallings Theorem on Ends
• Stallings Foldings
• Magnus's topological proof of residual p-finiteness of free groups