Hi everyone,<br /><br />Due to the speaker's schedule, seminar coffee will
be from <strong>1 to 2pm</strong> tomorrow. The links are as usual, but
details are below!<br /><br />Best,<br />Jenya Sapir<br /><br
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/>This week our speaker is Rylee Lyman of Rutgers University. Links and
details are below.<br /><br />Zoom link for the seminar, 2:50 - 3:50:<br
/>https://binghamton.zoom.us/j/94057178271<br /><br />Zoom link for the
coffee,<strong> 1:00pm - 2:00pm</strong>:<br
/>https://binghamton.zoom.us/j/96674397432<br /><br />Title: Nielsen
realization for infinite-type surfaces<br /><br />Abstract: We learn the
classification of surfaces early in our<br />mathematical careers: the
homeomorphism type of an orientable surface<br />with finitely generated
fundamental group is determined by genus,<br />punctures and boundary
components. Without the finite generation<br />assumption, there is still
a classification, due to Kerékjártó and<br
/>Richards. These surfaces are of infinite type. Associated to any<br
/>surface is its mapping class group. A famous theorem of Kerckhoff
from<br />1983 solves the "Nielsen realization" problem posed in
1932: finite<br />subgroups of the mapping class group of a finite-type
surface of<br />negative Euler characteristic are exactly the groups of
isometries of<br />some hyperbolic metric on the surface. Recently, joint
with Santana<br />Afton, Danny Calegari and Lvzhou Chen, I extended
Kerckhoff's theorem to<br />orientable, infinite-type surfaces. I'd like
to introduce infinite-type<br />surfaces and discuss the theorem and some
of its consequences.