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JOINT MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM


An Invitation to Measurable Group Theory

Alex Furman

University of Illinois at Chicago

Brandeis University

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Talk at 4:30 p.m. in 317 Goldsmith Hall

Tea at 4:00 p.m. in 300 Goldsmith Hall


Abstract: In this talk we shall discuss rigidity aspects of infinite discrete groups, which arise naturally in Geometry (as fundamental groups of manifolds), in Algebraic groups (as lattices) and, more generally, as symmetries of various mathematical objects.



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