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Introduction to Geometric Group Theory
Aug 27, 2007 to Aug 31, 2007

Organizer(s)

Mladen Bestvina, Jon McCammond, Michah Sageev, Karen Vogtmann
To apply for funding, you must register by Fri, Aug 31 2007.

Registration Deadline

Fri, Aug 31 2007

Contact

The workshop will consist of several minicourses, 3 hours each, as well as a program of one-hour lectures. The planned mini-course speakers and their topics are as follows:
  • Jim Cannon: Non-positive and negative curvature in group theory
  • Ruth Charney: Coxeter and Artin groups
  • Benson Farb: Mapping class groups
  • Bruce Kleiner: Quasi-isometric rigidity
  • Ian Leary: Finiteness properties and Bestvina-Brady Morse Theory
The following people have agreed to give one-hour lectures:
  • Mike Davis
  • Daniel Groves
  • Kim Ruane
  • Jennifer Taback
  • Alain Valette
  • Henry Wilton
  • Kevin Wortman
  • Jon McCammond

Funding

To apply for funding, you must register by Fri, Aug 31 2007. Click to Register
Students, recent Ph.D.'s, women, and members of underrepresented minorities are particularly encouraged to apply. Funding awards are made typically 6 weeks before the workshop begins. Requests received after the funding deadline are considered only if additional funds become available.

Important

Schedule
Monday, August 27, 2007
9:00AM - 9:50AM James Cannon Geometric Group Theory by Example [Video available]
10:30AM - 11:20AM Ruth Charney Coxeter and Artin groups [Video available]
1:00PM - 1:50PM Benson Farb A crash course on mapping class groups, I: Algebra versus topology [Video available]
2:00PM - 2:50PM Michael Davis Cohomology of Coxeter groups and buildings [Video available]
3:45PM - 4:45PM Daniel Groves Homomorphisms to mapping class groups [Video available]
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
9:00AM - 9:50AM Bruce Kleiner Quasi-isometric rigidity [Video available]
10:30AM - 11:20AM Ian Leary Finiteness properties and Bestvina-Brady Morse theory [Video available]
1:00PM - 1:50PM James Cannon Curvature in Group Theory [Video available]
2:00PM - 2:50PM Kim Ruane Automorphisms of Graph Products [Video available]
3:45PM - 4:45PM Jennifer Taback An introduction to Thompson's group F [Video available]
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
9:00AM - 9:50AM Ruth Charney Coxeter and Artin groups [Video available]
10:30AM - 11:20AM Benson Farb A crash course in mapping class groups, II: Moduli space and the Thurston Classification [Video available]
11:30AM - 12:20PM Bruce Kleiner Quasi-isometric rigidity [Video available]
Thursday, August 30, 2007
9:00AM - 9:50AM Ian Leary Finiteness properties and Bestvina-Brady Morse theory [Video available]
10:30AM - 11:20AM James Cannon Curvature and Group Algorithms [Video available]
1:00PM - 1:50PM Ruth Charney Coxeter and Artin groups [Video available]
3:45PM - 4:35PM Kevin Wortman SL(n,Z[t]) is not FP_(n-1) [Video available]
Friday, August 31, 2007
9:00AM - 9:50AM Bruce Kleiner Quasi-isometric rigidity [Video available]
10:30AM - 11:20AM Benson Farb A crash course on mapping class groups, II: The Torelli group [Video available]
1:00PM - 1:50PM Ian Leary Finiteness properties and Bestvina-Brady Morse theory [Video available]
2:00PM - 2:50PM Jon McCammond Triangle, Squares and Biautomaticity [Video available]
3:45PM - 4:35PM Henry Wilton Subgroup separability in residually free groups [Video available]
Parent Program(s):
Geometric Group Theory


Questions about this workshop should be sent either by email to
415@msri.org

or by regular mail to:
Introduction to Geometric Group Theory
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
17 Gauss Way, Berkeley, CA
94720-5070.
USA

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