Geometry of the mapping class group

Seminar: 
Graduate Student Seminar
Event time: 
Friday, October 3, 2014 - 8:00am to 10:00am
Location: 
201 LOM
Speaker: 
Tarik Aougab
Speaker affiliation: 
Yale University
Event description: 

Let G be a finitely generated group. The philosophy of geometric group theory is to extract algebraic information about G, from the geometry of a nice metric space on which G acts nicely. In this talk we’ll discuss this program in the context of the mapping class group—a very important group in low dimensional topology and hyperbolic geometry.