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Mathematical Sciences Seminar - The width of a finite simple group

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Venue: Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street

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Suppose you have a subset A of a finite group G. We'd like to know how many conjugates A_1,..., A_n of A you need so that G=A_1xA_2x...xA_n. This question crops up naturally in various areas of group theory, most spectacularly in the construction of families of expander graphs.

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