GGT Seminar

Date and time: 28th April 2023, at 11:30 AM 

Venue: Ramanujan Hall.

Host: Rekha Santhanam

Speaker:  Soumyadeb Samanta

Affiliation:  IIT Bombay

Title: Lamplighter groups

Abstract:  In this talk, we shall discuss about the Lamplighter groups, mostly Lamplighter group L_2, it's group operation and presentation. Then we will move on to give an efficient formula for calculating the word length of elements of L_2 and have a look at the Cayley graph of L_2. I shall end with a short discussion on which contexts Lamplighter groups appear in Mathematics.