Seminar series
Date
Wed, 16 Oct 2013
Time
16:00 -
17:00
Location
C6
Speaker
Robert Kropholler
Organisation
Oxford University
It is an open question whether a group with a finite classifying space is hyperbolic or contains a Baumslag Solitar Subgroup. An idea of Gromov was to use aperiodic tilings of the plane to try and disprove this conjecture. I will be looking at some of the attempts to find a counterexample.