Jennifer Taback

Contact Information: 

Department of  Mathematics

Bowdoin College

8600 College Station

Brunswick, ME 04011

Email: jtaback@bowdoin.edu

(207) 725-3951 (Office)

(207) 725-3750 (Fax)

Office: Searles 202

I am an associate professor of mathematics at Bowdoin College. Click here for the Bowdoin math department web page, and here for links to my teaching for the current semester.

Research interests, from the very broad to the very specific: geometric and combinatorial group theory, quasi-isometric rigidity, Thompson’s groups, lamplighter groups, limit groups, understanding twisted conjugacy classes in a variety of geometric contexts.

Papers
Arxiv	The geometry of twisted conjugacy classes in wreath products (joint with Peter Wong), preprint, 2008.
Arxiv	Convexity properties of Thompson's group $F$ (joint with Melanie Stein and Matthew Horak), preprint, 2007.
Arxiv	Random subgroups of Thompson's group $F$ (joint with Sean Cleary, Murray Elder and Andrew Reichnitzer), preprint, 2007.
Arxiv	Computing word length in alternate presentations of Thompson's group $F$ (joint with Melanie Stein and Matthew Horak), preprint, 2007.
Arxiv	A note on twisted conjugacy and generalized Baumslag-Solitar groups (joint with Peter Wong), preprint, 2006.
Arxiv	Twisted conjugacy and quasi-isomety invariance for generalized solvable Baumslag-Solitar groups (joint with Peter Wong), J. Lond. Math. Soc. (2) 75 (2007), no. 3, 705--717.
Arxiv	Combinatorial and metric properties of Thompson’s group T (joint with Jose Burillo, Sean Cleary and Melanie Stein, to appear in Trans. AMS.
Arxiv	Bounding right-arm rotation distances (joint with Sean Cleary), Internat. J. Algebra Comput.17 (2007), no. 2, 369--399.
Arxiv	Cone types and geodesic languages for lamplighter groups and Thompson's group F (joint with Sean Cleary and Murray Elder), J. Algebra, Vol. 303 No. 2 (2006), pp. 476-500.
Arxiv	Metric properties of the lamplighter group as an automata group (joint with Sean Cleary), in Jose Burillo, Sean Cleary, Murray Elder, Jennifer Taback and Enric Ventura, editors, Geometric Methods in Group Theory, American Mathematical Society, 2005.
Arxiv	Dead end words in lamplighter groups and other wreath products (joint with Sean Cleary), Quarterly Journal of Mathematics Volume 56 No. 2 (2005), pp.165-178.
Arxiv	Seesaw words in Thompson's group F (joint with Sean Cleary), in Jose Burillo, Sean Cleary, Murray Elder, Jennifer Taback and Enric Ventura, editors, Geometric Methods in Group Theory, American Mathematical Society, 2005.
Arxiv	The large scale geometry of some metabelian groups (joint with Kevin Whyte), Michigan Math. Journal, Vol. 52 No. 1 (2004), pp. 205-218.
PDF	Restricted rotation distance (joint with Sean Cleary), Information Proc. Letters,  Vol. 88 No. 5 (2003), pp. 251-256.
New York Journal	Geometric quasi-isometric embeddings into Thompson's group F (joint with Sean Cleary), New York Journal of Mathematics, 9 (2003), pp. 141-148.
Arxiv	Combinatorial properties of Thompson's group F (joint with Sean Cleary), Trans. AMS. Vol. 356 No. 7 (2004), pp. 2825--2849 (electronic).
Arxiv	Thompson's group F is not almost convex (joint with Sean Cleary), J. Algebra, Vol. 270 No. 1 (2004), pp 133-149.
PDF	Surface symmetries and PSL(2,p) (joint with Murad Ozaydin and Charlotte Simmons), Trans. AMS, to appear.
New York Journal	Equivalence of geometric and combinatorial Dehn  functions (joint with Jose Burillo), New York Journal of Mathematics, 8 (2002), pp. 169-179.
Arxiv	The Dehn function of PSL(2,Z[1/p]), Geom. Dedicata, Vol. 102 No. 1 (2003) pp. 179-195.
Arxiv	Quasi-isometric rigidity of PSL(2,Z[1/p]), Duke Math. Journal, 101 (2000), No. 2, pp. 335-357.

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	Department of Mathematics, Bowdoin College