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====== Peter Hilton Memorial Lecture - 2013 ======

**Speaker:** Dani Wise, McGill University
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**Title:** From Riches to Raags: Cubes, Groups and 3-Manifolds



Thursday April 18, 2013, 
Binghamton University, 
Science 2, Room 144
3:00pm. 

followed by a Reception at 4.15, President's Dining Room, Anderson Center, Binghamton University. 
This reception is for the whole Binghamton Mathematics Community as well as for our visitors. 

{{:hiltonmemorial:flyer2013.pdf|Flyer for the lecture}}

**Abstract:**

Cube complexes have come to play an increasingly central role within geometric group theory, as
their connection to right-angled Artin groups provides a powerful combinatorial bridge between
geometry and algebra. This talk will describe the developments in this theory that have recently
culminated in the resolution of the virtual Haken conjecture for 3-manifolds, and simultaneously
dramatically extended our understanding of many infinite groups.