October 18, 2018: Yen Duong

Random groups and cubulations

Yen Duong — Invited AWM speaker

Special cube complexes have been a hot topic for a few years now for their versatility and usefulness. Following a construction of Sageev we can cubulate all sorts of groups, and specifically I’ll explain Gromov’s density model of random groups, the square model of random groups, and examples of Sageev’s cubulation with random groups, and why we would want to do all this.