Crystallographic groups and their cousins Seminar
- Time:
- 13:00
- Date:
- 28 October 2013
- Venue:
- 54/10037 (10B)
For more information regarding this seminar, please email Dr Dennis Dreesen at Dennis.Dreesen@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
Lunchtime seminar series
Abstract
I will define crystallographic groups and discuss their properties. I will then mention their various generalisations such as almost-crystallographic groups. The torsion-free such groups are exactly the fundamental groups of almost-flat manifolds in the sense of Gromov.
Speaker information
Dr Nansen Petrosyan ,Lecturer n Pure Mathematics