Course Identification

Title:

Geometric group theory

Code:

20264162

Lecturers and Teaching Assistants

Lecturers:

Prof. Daniel Tzvi Wise

TA's:

N/A

Course Schedule and Location

Year:

2026

Semester:

Second Semester

When / Where:

Sunday, 14:15 - 16:00, Ziskind, Rm 1
Wednesday, 15:15 - 17:00, Jacob Ziskind Building Room 108

First Lecture:

12/04/2026

End date:

28/06/2026

Field of Study, Course Type and Credit Points

Mathematics and Computer Science: Lecture; Regular; 4.00 points

Comments

N/A

Prerequisites

No

Restrictions

Participants:

20

Language of Instruction

English

Attendance and participation

Expected and Recommended

Grade Type

Pass / Fail

Grade Breakdown (in %)

Attendance

50%

Seminar:

50%

Evaluation Type

Seminar

Scheduled date 1

Date / due date

N/A

Location

N/A

Time

-

Remarks

N/A

Estimated Weekly Independent Workload (in hours)

3

Syllabus

This will be a introductory course to geometric group theory.
We aim to cover:
Actions on Trees
Basic notions related to quasi-isometries
Hyperbolic Groups
some generalizations (Automatic/CAT(0) groups/Relative Hyperbolicity)
Small-Cancellation Theory.

Learning Outcomes

The goal of the course will be to bring students to a level of familiarity with the basic objects in geometric gorup theory.

Reading List

N/A

Website

N/A