On Simple Amenable Groups

Series
Job Candidate Talk
Time
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 - 11:00am for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 005
Speaker
Kate Juschenko – Vanderbilt University – https://sites.google.com/site/katejuschenko/
Organizer
Brett Wick
We will discuss amenability of the topological full group of a minimal Cantor system. Together with the results of H. Matui this provides examples of finitely generated simple amenable groups. Joint with N. Monod.