[Binghamton Geometry Topology Seminar] Thursday Seminar

[Cary Malkiewich]

Hi everyone,

One more reminder about the Geometry and Topology seminar today! Links in
the email copied below.

Cary

On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 5:06 PM Matthew R Haulmark <haulmark at binghamton.edu>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I am just writing to remind you what Abdul Zalloum of Queen's University
> will be speaking this Thursday from 2:50 - 3:50 pm. There will also be an
> opportunity to meet the speaker earlier in the afternoon from 12:30 - 1:30
> pm. Below you will find links for the Zoom meetings and the title and
> abstract for Abdul's talk.
>
> I hope to see you there!
>
> -Matt
>
> Zoom link for the seminar:
> https://binghamton.zoom.us/j/94057178271
>
> Zoom link for the coffee with our speaker.
>
> https://binghamton.zoom.us/j/96674397432
>
>
> Meeting ID: 966 7439 7432
>
>
> *Title:* Hyperbolic-like boundaries of non-hyperbolic spaces.
>
> *Abstract:* While a quasi-isometry between two hyperbolic spaces X,Y
> induces a homeomorphism between their respective Gromov boundaries, the
> conclusion fails if X,Y are replaced by cocompact CAT(0) spaces. This has
> motivated a bulk of recent work introducing "hyperbolic-like" boundaries
> for CAT(0) spaces, and more generally, for proper geodesic metric spaces.
> For a proper geodesic metric space X, instead of considering the collection
> of *all *geodesic rays shooting to infinity, if you collect only those possessing
> some "hyperbolic-like" behavior, you obtain a boundary which is invariant
> under-quasi isometries. I will describe few such boundaries along with the
> way they relate to each other. Some of the results I will mention are joint
> with Incerti-Medici while others are joint with Qing and Murray."
>
> _______________________________________________
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