- Series
- School of Mathematics Colloquium
- Time
- Wednesday, June 8, 2016 - 3:30pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Clary theater
- Speaker
- Ruth Charney – Brandeis University – charney@brandeis.edu – http://people.brandeis.edu/~charney/
- Organizer
- Michael Damron
In the early '90s, Gromov introduced a notion of hyperbolicity for
geodesic metric spaces. The study of groups of isometries of such
spaces has been an underlying theme in much of the work in geometric
group theory since that time. Many geodesic metric spaces, while not
hyperbolic in the sense of Gromov, nonetheless display some
hyperbolic-like behavior. I will discuss a new invariant, the Morse
boundary of a space, which captures this behavior. (Joint work with
Harold Sultan and Matt Cordes.)