Seminar meets Tuesdays at 4:30 in BP 101 in the Tufts Math Department.  You can subscribe to the GGTT mailing list here.  In Spring 2017, the seminar organizer is Moon Duchin.

 

date name title
Jan 24 Ruth Charney (Brandeis) Convexity of parabolic subgroups of Artin groups
Jan 31
Feb 7 Aaron Calderon (Yale) Conjugacy geodesics in Coxeter groups
Feb 14
Feb 21 Pallavi Dani (LSU) Commensurability classification for certain right-angled Coxeter groups
Feb 28 Assaf Bar Natan (McGill) Arcs on punctured disks pairwise intersecting twice
Mar 7
Mar 14 Katie Mann (Berkeley) 3pm pre-talk:  Introduction to groups of circle homeomorphisms

Circular orders and the dynamics of group actions on the circle

Mar 21 [spring break]
Mar 28 Mary He (Chicago) 3pm dynamics talk: Basmajian-type identities and Hausdorff dimension of limit sets
Juliette Bavard (Chicago) The Gromov boundary of the ray graph
Apr 4  
Apr 11 Rob Kropholler (Tufts) Subgroups of hyperbolic groups
Apr 18
Apr 25
May 2 Yago Antolin (Madrid)  The degree of commutativity for infinite groups, and its relatives