Francesco Matucci


Department of Mathematics

Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853, USA

Email: matucci@math.cornell.edu
I am a graduate student in the Department of Mathematics at Cornell University under the supervision of Ken Brown. My research interests are in combinatorial group theory, specifically in the study of decision problems and subgroup classification in groups of homeomorphisms.

My CV is here.


My Research Statement and my Teaching Statement.

Papers
Cryptanalysis of the Shpilrain-Ushakov Protocol in Thompson’s Group, to appear in the Journal of Cryptology.

Finite solvable groups whose Quillen complex is Cohen-Macaulay, submitted.

The Simultaneous Conjugacy Problem in Groups of Piecewise Linear
Functions
, preprint, with Martin Kassabov.

Conjugacy in Thompson's Groups, preprint, with James Belk.

Dynamics in Thompson's group F, preprint, with James Belk.

Structure Theorems for Subgroups of Homeomorphisms Groups, in preparation, with Collin Bleak and Martin Kassabov (slides)

Roots, Centralizers and the Conjugacy Problem in Subgroups of Homeomorphism Groups of R and S^1, in preparation, with Collin Bleak and Martin Kassabov.

Selected Talks
Structure Theorems for Subgroups of Homeomorphism Groups, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, September 2007 (slides)

All flavours of Conjugacy in Thompson's group F, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, June 2007 (slides)

Cryptanalysis of the Shpilrain-Ushakov Protocol in Thompson’s Group, Advanced
Course on Group-Based Cryptography, May 2007 (slides)

Conjugacy and Dynamics in Thompson's Groups, Binghamton University, May 2007 (slides)

Conjugacy and Dynamics in Thompson's Groups, Conference on Combinatorial,
algorithmic and cryptographic aspects of Group Theory, Marseille, France, February 2007 (slides)

On Trivalent Directed Graphs and Conjugacy Classes of Thompson's Group F,
AMS Special Session, University of New Hampshire, April 2006

The Conjugacy Problem in Groups of Piecewise Linear Functions, Binghamton University, November 2005 (slides)

The Conjugacy Problem in Groups of Piecewise Linear Functions
, Conference on
Geometric and Probabilistic Methods in Group Theory and Dynamical Systems,
Texas T&AM, November 2005

The Simultaneous Conjugacy Problem in Thompson's Group F is Solvable, AMS
Special Session, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, October 2005