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DESCRIPTION:Part B Examination of Mr. William Chong\n\nDATE: Wednesday\, Ju
 ly 12\, 2023\n\nTIME: 3:00 p.m.\n\nPLACE: Zoom online meeting\n\nPRINCIPAL
  EXAMINERS:\n\nProf. Daniel Wise\n\nTopic 1: Definitions and examples of t
 he growth of finitely generated groups and their growth series\; examples 
 of groups of exponential growth and polynomial growth\; the definition of 
 branch groups. References: 1. Topics in Geometric Group Theory. Pierre de 
 la Harpe. Chapters VI to VII (pp. 151 - 209) 2. Branch Groups. Laurent Bar
 tholdi\, Rostislav I. Grigorchuk and Zoran Sunik. Chapters 0 to 1 (pp. 1 -
  31)\n\nProf. Piotr Przytycki\n\nTopic 2: Definitions and examples of spec
 ial cube complexes. Relationship with Right-angled Artin groups and Coxete
 r groups. Application to Virtually Clean VH-Complexes. Canonical Completio
 n and Retraction of special cube complexes. Separability of Quasiconvex Su
 bgroups and its converse theorem. Linear version of Rips short exact seque
 nce. Cubulation of Coxeter groups. A boundary criterion for cubulation. Re
 ferences: Special Cube Complexes. Frederic Haglund and Daniel T. Wise. Cha
 pters 1 to 8 and 10. Coxeter Groups are Virtually Special. Frederic Haglun
 d and Daniel T. Wise. A Boundary Criterion for Cubulation. Nicolas Bergero
 n and Daniel T. Wise.\n\nOTHER \n\nEXAMINERS: Anush Tserunyan (Additional 
 Examiner)\n\nMarcin Sabok (Additional Examiner)\n\nJerome Vetois (Chair\, 
 Exam Committee) TBC\n\nThe examination is open to staff members and visito
 rs but not to students\n
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LOCATION:Zoom online Meeting\, Burnside Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0B9
 \, 805 rue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Part B Examination of Mr. William Chong
URL:/mathstat/channels/event/part-b-examination-mr-wil
 liam-chong-348630
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