[Binghamton Geometry/Topology Seminar] Geometry/Topology Seminar this Thursday: Matt Brin

[Tam Nguyen Phan]

   BINGHAMTON GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR


   Date: Thursday, October 30, 2014

   Time:  2.50 pm

   Place: Old Whitney Hall, Room 100E,  followed by coffee/tea in the
      Hilton Reading Room. Note the new location of the math department.


   Speaker: Matt Brin (Binghamton University)
   Title: Groups of piecewise linear homeomorphisms of the unit interval

Abstract:
It has long been a personal goal to understand the subgroup structure of
the group of all piecewise linear, orientation preserving self
homeomorphism of the unit interval, and it has been long accepted that this
is not a particularly practical goal. However recent events have shown that
while the ultimate goal might still be a long way off, we are a lot closer
than we were a year ago. The talk is a progress report giving some results,
some strong beliefs and some open questions. The work is joint with Collin
Bleak and Justin Moore.

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

http://www2.math.binghamton.edu/p/seminars/topsem

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