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All talks are to be held in Chauvenet Hall, room 116 (Magnus software demo in Rickover Hall, room 119)
Professor Efim Zelmanov
Yale Univ
Title:
On some open problems related to the Burnside problem
Abstract: We will discuss some cases of the Burnside problem which still remain open.
Professor Gilbert Baumslag
Distinguished Professor at CUNY
Title:
Reflections on metabelian groups and lie rings
Abstract: I will talk about subgroups and sub-lie rings respectively, of finitely generated metabelian groups and lie rings, raising, as time permits, some related problems.
Professor Alexei Myasnikov
CUNY
Title:
Algorithmic problems over free groups, just how complicated are they?
Abstract:
(Classic joke)
If you take this joke seriously , then every algorithmic problem is a problem over a free group. It does not look very promising, does it?
Instead, one can focus just on the problems which arise naturally "inside" a free group. I will discuss a hierarchy of such problems and compare different levels of this hierarchy with respect to their complexity.
Magnus software demo
There are plans for a dinner with the speakers Sunday night, November 9th. Time and place to be announced. (Tentatively, Cafe Normandie on Main Street in Annapolis, around 6pm.)
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Last updated 11-7-97