We investigate finite and profinite groups with the Magnus property, where a group is said to…
Future and Ongoing Seminars
In this talk, we explore a martingale approximation framework that provides quantitative…
As a consequence of the Littlewood-Richardson commuters coincidence and the Kumar-Torres…
A reduced word for a permutation of the symmetric group is its own commutation class if it has…
We introduce the concept of a nonassociative (i.e. not necessarily associative) inverse…
I will present recent joint work with Jérémy Toulisse and Richard Wentworth on a differential…
In the 1950’s Davenport, Mirsky, Newman and Rado proved that if the integers are partitioned by…
Past Seminars
Plactic monoids are infinite, finitely generated monoids arising from a natural combinatorial…
In this series of three lectures, we will discuss two important and relatively new methods…
Let C be a decomposable plane curve over an algebraically closed field k of characteristic 0.
Automata pose a simple way to describe groups and semigroups with sometimes surprisingly complex…
In this talk, we consider the class of finite right restriction Ehresmann semigroups whose…
In our talk we will review some of the combinatorial methods in…
A self-similar group is a group $G$ acting on the Cayley graph of a finitely generated free…
Free profinite semigroups are completions of free semigroups, and for that reason their elements…
The ubiquitous plactic monoid, also known as the monoid of Young tableaux, has deep connections…
The aim of this talk is to explain how model theory can be fruitfully applied to the study of…
Two groups are called commensurable if they have isomorphic subgroups of finite index.
Hitchin's connection, originally constructed using techniques of Kähler geometry, is a flat…
We will emphasize how to approach dynamical systems from a probabilistic perspective (or…
Consider the moduli space $\mathcal{M}(G)$ of $G$-Higgs bundles on a compact Riemann surface $X…
A numerical semigroup is just a subset of the nonnegative…
A discrete statistical model is a subset of a probability simplex. Its maximum likelihood…
In this talk, we will explore some of the possible connections between (abstract) simplicial…
Let $X$ be a smooth complex projective curve and let $x\in X$ be a point. We compute the…
While it is well known that the moduli space of $G$-bundles over a smooth projective curve is…
We explain how deformations of a parabolic bundle ξ are given by the vector…
