Event time:
Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - 11:15am to 12:15pm
Location:
211 ML
Speaker:
Ian Agol
Speaker affiliation:
UC Berkeley and IAS
Event description:
These lectures will discuss the virtual fibering conjecture and related questions.
The second lecture will discuss certain aspects of geometric group theory, especially hyperbolic groups and CAT(0) cube complexes. We’ll then state the theorem (a conjecture of Dani Wise) which implies the virtual fibering theorem.