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Topics in Geometric Group Theory
Nov 5, 2007 to Nov 9, 2007

Organizer(s)

Noel Brady, Mike Davis, Mark Feighn
To apply for funding, you must register by Fri, Sep 14 2007.
This conference will be devoted to cutting-edge developments in geometric group theory. We expect that the talks will cover aspects of the following topics: CAT(0)-spaces and CAT(0)-cubical complexes, hyperbolic and relatively hyperbolic groups, automorphism groups of free groups and surface groups, self-similar groups, Coxeter groups and Artin groups, lattices in Lie groups and Kac-Moody groups, asymptotic dimension, measurable group theory, and limit groups.

The following people have agreed to give one hour lectures:

Jason Behrstock
Martin Bridson
Indira Chatterji
Alexander Dranishnikov
Jan Dymara
Alex Eskin
David Fisher
Koji Fujiwara
Vincent Guirardel
Michael Handel
Tadeusz Januszkiewicz
Larsen Louder
Jason Manning
Dan Margalit
Volodymyr Nekrashevych
Denis Osin
Panagiotis Papazoglou
Thomas Putman
Bertrand Remy
Yehuda Shalom
Anne Thomas
Karen Vogtmann


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This workshop is partially supported by a grant from Collaborative Research Center 701, University of Bielefeld, funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation).The organizers and MSRI acknowledge the assistance of Professor Herbert Abels in this project.






A block of rooms has been reserved at the Rose Garden Inn. Reservations may be made by calling 1-800-992-9005 OR directly on their website. Click on Corporate at the bottom of the screen and when prompted enter code MATH (this code is not case sensitive). By using this code a new calendar will appear and will show MSRI rate on all room types available. The following Group Code should be entered in the "Comment" field when booking through our Website. Group Code = CGGGT2. Please note: The Original Queen room type does not have an in-room T1 connection, but we do have WIFI available in our main lobby area. The cut-off date for reservations is October 12, 2007.

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hotel Durant. Please mention the workshop name and reference the following code when making reservations via phone, fax or e-mail: WU0000. The cut-off date for reservations is October 5, 2007.


The schedule of talks found below is tentative.

Funding

To apply for funding, you must register by Fri, Sep 14 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.
Schedule
Monday, November 05, 2007
9:00AM - 9:50AM Alex Eskin Coarse Differentiation and the Geometry of Polycyclic Groups [Video available]
10:30AM - 11:20AM Yehuda Shalom Y. Shalom Lecture [Video available]
11:30AM - 12:20PM Alexander Dranishnikov On Asymptotic Dimension of Coxeter Groups [Video available]
2:00PM - 2:50PM Indira Chatterji Median Spaces and Applications [Video available]
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
9:00AM - 9:50AM Karen Vogtmann Automorphism Groups of Right-angled Artin Groups [Video available]
10:30AM - 11:20AM Panagiotis Papazoglou Higher Isoperimetric Inequalities for Complexes and Groups [Video available]
11:30AM - 12:20PM Anne Thomas Lattices Acting on Polyhedral Complexes [Video available]
2:00PM - 2:50PM Denis Osin Normal Automorphisms of Relatively Hyperbolic Groups [Video available]
3:30PM - 4:20PM Koji Fujiwara Rank-1 Isometries on CAT(0) Spaces and Quasi-homomorphisms [Video available]
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
9:00AM - 9:50AM Bertrand REMY A Family of Simple Groups Acting on Buildings [Video available]
10:30AM - 11:20AM Dan Margalit Dimension of Torelli Groups [Video available]
11:30AM - 12:20PM Thomas Putman On the Homology of Finite Index Subgroups of the Mapping Class Group [Video available]
2:00PM - 2:50PM Jason Behrstock Quasi-isometric Rigidity of the Mapping Class Groups [Video available]
3:30PM - 4:20PM Jan Dymara L^2 Cohomology of Buildings [Video available]
Thursday, November 08, 2007
9:00AM - 9:50AM Vincent Guirardel Geometric Makanin Algorithm for Solving Equations in Virtually Free Groups [Video available]
10:30AM - 11:20AM Michael Handel Global fixed points for centralizers and Morita's Theorem (joint work with John Franks) [Video available]
11:30AM - 12:20PM Larsen Louder Krull Dimension for Limit Groups [Video available]
2:00PM - 2:50PM Volodymyr Nekrashevych Space of Marked Groups and Non-uniform Exponential Growth [Video available]
Friday, November 09, 2007
10:30AM - 11:30AM Tadeusz Januszkiewicz Groups with Fixed Point Properties [Video available]
11:30AM - 12:20PM Jason Manning Residual Finiteness and Separability of Quasi-convex Subgroups [Video available]
2:00PM - 2:50PM David Fisher Kleiner's Proof of the Polynomial Growth Theorem [Video available]
Parent Program(s):
Geometric Group Theory


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Topics in Geometric Group Theory
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