Mathematical Sciences Geometry/Topology Seminar

November 17:
Speaker: Francesco Matucci (Florence and Cornell)
Title: The Simultaneous Conjugacy Problem for Thompson's Group F

Abstract: I will discuss an alternative approach to the Conjugacy Problem of Thompson's Group F which, unlike the usual one using diagram groups, is also applicable to the group of piecewise-linear orientation-preserving homeomorphisms of the unit interval with a finite number of breakpoints (often denoted with PL_0(I)). These techniques can be used to solve the Simultaneous Conjugacy Problem (Joint work with Martin Kassabov).