{"id":677,"date":"2025-03-09T18:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/newmath2025\/?p=677"},"modified":"2025-04-17T15:12:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T15:12:25","slug":"topology-and-group-theory-seminar-april-16-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/2025\/03\/09\/topology-and-group-theory-seminar-april-16-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Topology and Group Theory Seminar: April 16, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong>Robbie Lyman (Rutgers)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Title:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><em>Graphical models for groups<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>In geometric group theory, we love groups and graphs. Every (abstract) group has (many) Cayley graphs, each one associated with a choice of a generating set. Recently I\u2019ve been curious about topological groups, inspired by the budding theory around and community of people inspired by mapping class groups of infinite-type surfaces and by Christian Rosendal\u2019s breakthrough work on geometries for topological groups. I\u2019m hoping to share out some of what I\u2019ve learned about topological groups acting on graphs. Much of this comes from recent joint work with Beth Branman, George Domat and Hannah Hoganson.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Host:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Talia Fernos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Robbie Lyman (Rutgers) Title:\u00a0Graphical models for groups Abstract:\u00a0In geometric group theory, we love groups and graphs. Every (abstract) group has (many) Cayley graphs, each one associated with a choice of a generating set. Recently I\u2019ve been curious about topological groups, inspired by the budding theory around and community of people inspired by mapping class&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2025\/03\/topology-grouptheory.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":678,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions\/678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}