Geometric Group Theory Seminar Course

Basic Information

Instructor: Nima Hoda

Seminar Schedule

Date Sections/topic Speaker
March 7 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 Piotr
March 15 5.4, 5.5 Daniel
March 22 5.6, 6.1, 6.2 Mikołaj
March 29 6.3, 6.4 Andrzej
April 5 7.1, 7.2 Piotr
April 12 7.3, 7.4, 7.5.1 Daniel
April 19 Easter holiday No speaker
April 26 7.5.2, 7.5.3 Katarzyna
May 3 Constitution day No speaker
May 10 7.5.4, 7.6, 8.1, 8.2.1 Andrzej
May 17 8.2.2, 8.2.3, 8.3.1, 8.3.2, 8.3.3 Mikołaj
May 24 8.3.4, 8.4 Katarzyna
May 31 9.1, 9.2.1 Piotr
June 7 9.2.2, 9.2.3, 9.2.4, 9.3, 9.4 Daniel
June 14 Bass-Serre Theory Nima

Additional Topics

  • Bass-Serre Theory after Scott and Wall (via graphs of spaces)
  • Asymptotic cones and the proof of Gromov's Theorem
  • Dunwoody's Accessibility Theorem
  • Wall spaces, CAT(0) cube complexes and median spaces
  • Systolic groups
  • Quadric groups
  • etc.