Dear all,

The MAXIMALS seminar will take place Wednesday at 3pm; details below. There will also be a short in-person pre-talk at 2.15 by the speaker in the same room.

Speaker: Stefanie Zbinden

Location: Appleton tower 2.12

Title: (Non)-Morse directions in groups

Abstract: While the theory of Morse boundaries and Morse geodesics is largely developed in

analogy
with Gromov boundaries, in this talk, we focus on phenomena which are
unique to the Morse boundary and non-hyperbolic groups. Firstly, we
study the (non)-sigma-compactness of the Morse boundary. Secondly, we
will study the negation of being Morse and show how that can be used to
construct hyperbolic spaces our favorite groups act on.