Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Mike Whittaker
| Dates: | 2 December 2024 |
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| Times: | 14:00 - 14:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | Department of Mathematics |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Current University students |
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Speaker: Mike Whittaker (University of Glasgow)
Title: Self-similar groups and their limit spaces
Abstract: A self-similar group (G,X) consists of a group G acting faithfully on a homogeneous rooted tree such that the action satisfies a self-similarity condition. In this talk I will introduce a beautiful theorem of Nekrashevych: there is a self-similar group associated to every post critically finite rational function whose limit space recovers the Julia set of the function. I'll then show how limit spaces of self-similar actions appear in other contexts and reveal dynamical systems in a group theoretic context.
Room: Frank Adams 1
Further information: https://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/yotam.smilansky/dynamics_analysis
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