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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 I
by
Ben Schmidt
University of Michigan
Coauthors: J. Lafont

I will introduce locally symmetric spaces and simplicial volume. I'll discuss various applications of positivity of the simplicial volume (MinVol, minimal entropy, non-collapsing, etc). I'll finish by sketching out Thurston's proof that higher genus surfaces have positive simplicial volume.

Date received: February 21, 2006

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