Seminar series
Date
Wed, 04 May 2016
Time
16:00 -
17:00
Location
C1
Speaker
Alex Margolis
In his ICM address in 1983, Gromov proposed a program of classifying finitely generated groups up to quasi-isometry. One way of approaching this is by breaking a group down into simpler parts by means of a JSJ decomposition. I will give a survey of various JSJ theories and related quasi-isometric rigidity results, including recent work by Cashen and Martin.