The topology of lattices in Lie groups
Time and place
1 PM on Thursday, May 7th, 2015; NAC 6/133
Andrew Putman (Rice University)
Abstract
Lattices in semisimple Lie groups (for instance, SL(n,Z)) are some of the most important examples of infinite groups. I will discuss old and new results about their topology, which has deep connections with geometry and number theory.
