Seminar series
Date
Wed, 11 Mar 2015
Time
11:00 -
12:30
Location
N3.12
Speaker
Henry Bradford
Organisation
Oxford
Expansion, Random Walks and Sieving in $SL_2 (\mathbb{F}_p[t])$
We pose the question of how to characterize "generic" elements of finitely generated groups. We set the scene by discussing recent results for linear groups in characteristic zero. To conclude we describe some new work in positive characteristic.