Spring 2014
Feb 07 Alexei Miasnikov | Stevens Institute of Technology
On the Andrew-Curtis Conjecture
Feb 14 Holiday - No Seminar
Feb 21 Lev Shneerson | Hunter College / CUNY
On The Growth of & Free Subsemigroups of Finitely Presented Inverse Semigroups
Feb 28 Jeremy MacDonald | Stevens Institute of Technology
Effective Coherence, Discrimination, and Quasi-convexity
Mar 07 Alan Reid | University of Texas, Austin
Profinite Rigidity & Flexibility
Mar 14 Enric Ventura | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Inverting Automorphisms of the Free Group
Mar 21 Jim Howie | Heriot-Watt University
Mar 28 Asaf Hadari | Yale University
Automorphisms of Free Groups, Semidirect Products and their Associated Spectra
Apr 11 Timothy Susse | CUNY Graduate Center
Stable Commutator Length in Amalgamated Free Products
Apr 18 Spring Break - No Seminar
Apr 25 Nikolay Romanovskiy | Novosibirsk University
Logical Aspects of the Theory of Rigid Solvable Groups
May 02 Benjamin Steinberg | The City College of New York / CUNY
Hyperplane Arrangements, CAT(0) Cube Complexes, & Koszul Algebras