Time

Feb 11 2010 - 2:30pm - 3:30 pm

Location

CH240

Speaker

Ian Leary (The Ohio State University)

Seminar Website

http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~fowler/ggt/

Abstract

I'll state the Kan-Thurston theorem and various strengthenings/variations of it, and then I'll describe how to use CAT(0) cubical complexes to prove a version of it. I gave a similar talk some years ago at OSU, but the result has improved slightly since then.