Topological Groups Reading Group

12:00 pm

Thursday, 23rd Aug 2012

V205, Mathematics Building


ARC Laureate Fellow Prof. George Willis

(CARMA, The University of Newcastle)

Higman-Thompson groups and groups of almost automorphisms of trees

George is going to start giving some talks on the embedding of Higman-Thompson groups into the groups of almost automorphisms of trees, and over several weeks will look at the structure theorems and scale calculations for these examples.