[Binghamton Geometry/Topology Seminar] (no subject)

[Ross Geoghegan]

                   BINGHAMTON GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR


   Date: Thursday November 17, 2005  

   Time:  2.50 pm

   Speaker: Francesco Matucci (Florence and Cornell) 

   Title: The Simultaneous Conjugacy Problem for Thompson's Group F 

Abstract: 
I will discuss an alternative approach to the Conjugacy Problem of
Thompson's Group F which, unlike the usual one using diagram groups, is
also applicable to the group of piecewise-linear orientation-preserving
homeomorphisms of the unit interval with a finite number of breakpoints
(often denoted with PL_0(I)). These techniques can be used to solve the
Simultaneous Conjugacy Problem (Joint work with Martin Kassabov).


   Place: Library North 2205 followed by coffee/tea in the Anderson
          Reading Room.


NOTE:  The seminar has a webpage where the semester's program is listed:

http://math.binghamton.edu/MATH/dept/topsem/index.html

It can also be linked from the Department's Home Page.
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