MATH-GA.2410-002, Spring 2018: Topics in Geometry: Geometric Group Theory

Basic information

Instructor: Robert Young (ryoung@cims.nyu.edu)
Office: WWH 601
Office hours by appointment
Lectures: W 9--10:50, WWH 517
Readings:
- B. Bowditch, A course on geometric group theory
- S. Levy, W. Thurston, Three-Dimensional Geometry and Topology
- C. Druţu, M. Kapovich, Geometric group theory

1/24	Finitely-presented groups
1/31	Quasi-isometries and geometric invariants
2/7	Milnor-Svarc, growth, ends
2/14	Ends of groups and group splittings
2/21	Bass-Serre theory and Stallings' Theorem
2/28	Negatively curved spaces and groups