Seminar series
Date
Wed, 12 Oct 2022
16:00
16:00
Location
L4
Speaker
Paweł Piwek
Organisation
University of Oxford
Profinite rigidity is essentially the study of which groups can be distinguished from each other by their finite quotients. This talk is meant to give a gentle introduction to the area - I will explain which questions are the right ones to ask and give an overview of some of the main results in the field. I will assume knowledge of what a group presentation is.