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G^3 = Geometric Group Theory on the Gulf Coast
March 16-19, 2006

Mobile, AL, USA

Organizers
Stephen Brick, Craig Jensen, Igor Mineyev.

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Positivity of simplicial volume of closed locally symmetric spaces of non-compact type, Part 2
by
Jean Lafont
Ohio State University
Coauthors: B. Schmidt

I will introduce the barycenter method (Patterson-Sullivan measures, center of mass, etc), and explain how the method can be used to adapt Thurston's arguments to general non-compact type locally symmetric spaces.

Date received: February 21, 2006

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