Rigidity of group actions

Fri Oct 28, 2022 12:00 p.m.—1:00 p.m.
Exterior of Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall featuring a stone carving of Yale's coat of arms and motto

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Seminar: 
Junior Colloquium

Event time: 
Friday, October 28, 2022 - 12:00pm

Location: 
LOM

Speaker: 
Sebastian Hurtado-Salazar

Speaker affiliation: 
Yale University

Event description: 
I will try to explain what rigidity in dynamics and geometry, and what type of groups (or actions) have it. The main characters of this story are cousins of SLn(Z), the group of invertible matrices with integer coefficients and n≥3.

Contact: 
Yale Math GSS