Seminar series
Date
Wed, 06 May 2015
Time
16:00 -
17:00
Location
C1
Speaker
Giles Gardam
Organisation
Oxford
This talk will be an introduction to the weird and wonderful world of Thompson's groups $F$, $T$ and $V$. For example, the group $T$ was the first known finitely presented infinite simple group, $V$ has a finitely presented subgroup with co-NP-complete word problem, and whether or not $F$ is amenable is an infamous open problem.