Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, the University has instruction to cancel all in-person events through the Spring semester to adhere to city and state orders limiting public gatherings. Events still running must now take place Online— listed events will include a link in which one may access the Online webspace:

To view Dr. Wise’s talk, enter their Online chatroom via Microsoft Teams— it will open at 3:00pm on Friday, May 7th, 2021.

The Cubical Route to Understanding Groups

Dr. Dani Wise
Professor of Mathematics
McGill University

“Cube complexes have come to play an increasingly central role within geometric group theory, as their connection to right-angled Artin groups provides a powerful combinatorial bridge between geometry and algebra. This zoomy talk will introduce nonpositively curved cube complexes, and then describe some of the developments that culminated in the resolution of the virtual Haken conjecture for 3-manifolds, and simultaneously dramatically extended our understanding of many infinite groups.”

*Click to view the event flyer.