Colloquium: Yash Lodha (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)

When:
April 15, 2019 @ 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
2019-04-15T15:30:00-10:00
2019-04-15T16:30:00-10:00
Where:
Keller 414
Colloquia and seminars

Speaker: Yash Lodha (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
Title: Group actions on 1-manifolds: A plethora of treasures.

Abstract: The study of group actions on 1-manifolds has seen some striking developments in recent years. In this talk I will describe some concrete examples that illustrate the richness of the theory. These groups are relatives of the famous groups F and T discovered by Richard Thompson in the 1970s.