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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 | ||
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+ | Thursday April 18, 2013, | ||
+ | Binghamton University, | ||
+ | Science 2, Room 144 | ||
+ | 3:00pm. | ||
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+ | 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. | ||
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+ | {{:hiltonmemorial:flyer2013.pdf|Flyer for the lecture}} | ||
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+ | **Abstract:** | ||
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+ | 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. |