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Geometry and Group Theory

The isomorphism problem for Coxeter groups

Master seminar on the isomorphism problem for Coxeter groups

Organization

A preliminary meeting for assigning talks happened on Monday, October 12 at 13:00 in SR3.

The talks will happen in three blocks throughout the semester, on the following Friday afternoons: Nov 13, Dec 11, Jan 22.

The schedule for each of these meetings is:
13:15 - 14:30 first talk
15:00 - 16:15 second talk
16:30 - 17:45 third talk

(Room TBD).

Please register on HeiCO if you are participating in the seminar.

Schedule of talks

November 13

  • Petra Schwer: What's the problem?
  • Mariia Meshchaninova: Reflections in abstract Coxeter groups
  • Arve Gruber: Vertical edges decompose into blow-ups

December 11

  • Paul Burkhardt: Twisting diagrams
  • Alex Korol: The twist conjecture
  • Thymoteus Kunat: The twist conjecture for skew-angled Coxeter groups

January 22

  • José Pedro Quintanilha: What is profinite rigidity?
  • Nils Thieme: Profinite rigidity and the isomorphism problem in small rank
  • Levi Kronenthaler: Profinite rigidity of affine Coxeter groups

Seminar program

Seminar program
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