[Binghamton Geometry Topology Seminar] Geometry and Topology seminar: Rachel Skipper

[Cary Malkiewich]

Just a reminder about the seminar (and lunch) today, link below:

On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 10:49 AM Cary Malkiewich <
malkiewich at math.binghamton.edu> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> This week we are pleased to have Rachel Skipper (Ohio State) speaking
> about braided Higman-Thompson groups, title and abstract below. As usual,
> the talk will be on Thursday at 2:50pm in WH 100E.
>
> The speaker will be delivering the talk remotely, and we'll project it in
> WH 100E. In case you can't make it and would like to join remotely, you can
> join at the link:
>
> https://binghamton.zoom.us/j/94800072611
>
> The "seminar lunch" will again be at the picnic table just outside the
> main entrance a little after 12pm (in case you need to go pick up food and
> bring it back). Anyone is welcome to join!
>
> Best,
> Cary
>
> =========================================
> Title: Finiteness properties for braided and ribboned groups of
> homeomorphisms of the Cantor Set
> Abstract: The braided Higman-Thompson groups were first introduced
> independently by Brin and Dehornoy. In this talk, we talk about some
> generalizations of this construction as well as how to braid self-similar
> groups. The focus of the talk will be on some recent work about finiteness
> properties of the resulting groups and how they fit into the growing field
> of big mapping class groups.
>
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