{"id":32,"date":"2018-12-18T20:23:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T20:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/math-sites.uncg.edu\/comgrouptom\/?p=32"},"modified":"2025-01-24T19:59:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T19:59:36","slug":"office-hours-with-a-geometric-group-theorist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/math-sites.uncg.edu\/comgrouptom\/office-hours-with-a-geometric-group-theorist\/","title":{"rendered":"Office Hours with a Geometric Group Theorist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/math-sites.uncg.edu\/directory\/bell\/\">Greg Bell<\/a>\u00a0is an author of a chapter of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/titles\/11042.html\">Office Hours with a Geometric Group Theorist<\/a>, published by Princeton University Press. His chapter deals with asymptotic dimension of groups.<\/p>\n<p><i>Office Hours with a Geometric Group Theorist<\/i>\u00a0brings together leading experts who provide one-on-one instruction on key topics in this exciting and relatively new field of mathematics. It&#8217;s like having office hours with your most trusted math professors.<\/p>\n<p>An essential primer for undergraduates making the leap to graduate work, the book begins with free groups \u2014 actions of free groups on trees, algorithmic questions about free groups, the ping-pong lemma, and automorphisms of free groups. It goes on to cover several large-scale geometric invariants of groups, including quasi-isometry groups, Dehn functions, Gromov hyperbolicity, and asymptotic dimension. It also delves into important examples of groups, such as Coxeter groups, Thompson&#8217;s groups, right-angled Artin groups, lamplighter groups, mapping class groups, and braid groups. The tone is conversational throughout, and the instruction is driven by examples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Bell\u00a0is an author of a chapter of\u00a0Office Hours with a Geometric Group Theorist, published by Princeton University Press. His chapter deals&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-combinatorics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/math-sites.uncg.edu\/comgrouptom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/math-sites.uncg.edu\/comgrouptom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/math-sites.uncg.edu\/comgrouptom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/math-sites.uncg.edu\/comgrouptom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/math-sites.uncg.edu\/comgrouptom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/math-sites.uncg.edu\/comgrouptom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"https:\/\/math-sites.uncg.edu\/comgrouptom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/math-sites.uncg.edu\/comgrouptom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/math-sites.uncg.edu\/comgrouptom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/math-sites.uncg.edu\/comgrouptom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}