Colloquium

Thursday, April 10, 2008

4:00 PM, BAC 219

Speaker: Ross Geoghegan

Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York

Host: Dan Farley and Ivonne Ortiz

Title: Associativity and Thompson's Group

Abstract:  A group discovered forty years ago by Richard Thompson (and the

subject of much study in recent years) governs associativity all over

mathematics.  I will explain this provocative sentence.