Automatic groups

Speaker(s)

Andrzej Nagorko

Affiliation

Uniwersytet Warszawski

Date

Nov. 14, 2007, 2:15 p.m.

Room

room 5870

Seminar

Seminar Automata Theory

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I'll talk about automatic groups, which incorporate finite state automata into geometric group theory in a prolific way. The class of automatic groups was introduced by Cannon and Thurston in the eighties.

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