Seminar series
Date
Wed, 11 Nov 2015
16:00
16:00
Location
C1
Speaker
Robert Kropholler
Organisation
Oxford
I will discuss a notoriously hard problem in group theory known as the flat closing conjecture. This states that a group with a finite classifying space is either hyperbolic or contains a Baumslag-Solitar Subgroup. I will give some strategies to try and create a counterexample to this conjecture.