Farb and Mosher introduced the notion of convex cocompactness from Kleinian groups to the theory of mapping class groups, with the beautiful application of potentially producing atoroidal non-hyperbolic groups of finite type, which would provide counterexamples to Gromov's coarse-hyperbolization conjecture for infinite groups. I'll give an overview of the foundations of the theory and the current state of things. Speaker(s): Autumn Kent (University of Wisconsin)