<div dir="ltr">Just a reminder about the seminar (and lunch) today, link below:</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 10:49 AM Cary Malkiewich <<a href="mailto:malkiewich@math.binghamton.edu">malkiewich@math.binghamton.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,<br><br>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.<br><br>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:<br><br><a href="https://binghamton.zoom.us/j/94800072611" target="_blank">https://binghamton.zoom.us/j/94800072611</a><br><br>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!<br><br>Best,<br>Cary<br><br>=========================================<br>Title: Finiteness properties for braided and ribboned groups of homeomorphisms of the Cantor Set<br>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.<br></div>
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