Anitha Thillaisundaram spoke at the University of St Andrews’ Pure Mathematics Colloquium

On the 23rd of November 2017, Anitha Thillaisundaram spoke on branch groups at the Pure Mathematics Colloquium at the University of St Andrews. She began her talk with the Burnside problem, focussing on the Gupta-Sidki groups, before moving on to branch groups and their maximal subgroups, and ending with a conjecture of Passman on group rings.