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[PAST EVENT] Mathematics Colloquium:  Santana Afton (Georgia Tech)

October 7, 2022
2pm - 3pm
Location
Jones Hall, Room 301
200 Ukrop Way
Williamsburg, VA 23185Map this location
Access & Features
  • Free food
  • Open to the public

How Groups, Geometry, and Arithmetic Come Together

There is a beautiful family of groups that appear naturally in the wild all across mathematics -- relating number theory, dynamics, topology, and geometric group theory -- called free-by-cyclic and surface-by-cyclic groups. I will present a number of examples of these groups and their relationship to geometry, discussing why I find their study so deeply motivating along the way. The talk will end with some of my own work attempting to understand a probabilistic model for these groups in the context of arithmetic geometry and number theory.

Refreshments provided outside of Jones 100 starting at 1:30 pm.





Contact

Sarah Day