Seminar series
Date
Fri, 31 Jan 2014
Time
16:30 -
17:30
Location
L1
Speaker
Professor Vladimir Markovic
Organisation
University of Cambridge (DPMMS)
The surface subgroup problem asks whether a given group contains a subgroup that is isomorphic to the fundamental group of a closed surface. In this talk I will survey the role that the surface subgroup problem plays in some important solved and unsolved problems in the theory of 3-manifolds, the geometric group theory, and the theory of arithmetic manifolds.