Professor Ross Geoghegan (SUNY Binghamton)

will speak on

Associativity and Richard Thompson's group

Time: 4:00PM
Date: Mon 2nd October 2006
Location: Mathematical Sciences Seminar Room [map]

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Abstract: A remarkable finitely generated group (discovered forty years ago by Richard Thompson and an object of much study in the meantime) governs the notion of "associativity" all over mathematics. I will explain.

(This talk is part of the Algebra and Number Theory series.)

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