[Binghamton Geometry/Topology Seminar] Geometry/Topology Seminar

[Christoforos Neofytidis]

BINGHAMTON GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR

   Date: Thursday, February 23rd, 2017

   Time: 2.50 pm

   Place: Whitney Hall, Room 100E

   Speaker: Jason Manning (Cornell University)

  Title: k-fold triangle groups

Abstract: I'll introduce a generalization of classical triangle groups and
use them to answer a question of Agol and Wise on possible extensions of
Wise's Malnormal Special Quotient Theorem (a central tool in the theory of
groups acting on cube complexes).

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

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