Event time:
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 - 9:10am to Monday, October 5, 2009 - 8:00pm
Location:
206 LOM
Speaker:
Johanna Mangahas
Speaker affiliation:
University of Michigan
Event description:
The problem of finding “short-word” pseudo-Anosovs relates to proving effective versions of the Tits alternative for the mapping class group. I’ll describe both problems, their relation, and their solutions.