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Introduction to Geometric Group Theory August 27, 2007 - August 31, 2007
Parent Program: Geometric Group Theory
Organizers Mladen Bestvina, Jon McCammond, Michah Sageev, Karen Vogtmann
Speaker(s) James Cannon, Ruth Charney (Brandeis University), Michael Davis, Benson Farb, Daniel Groves, Bruce Kleiner (New York University, Courant Institute), Ian Leary, Kim Ruane, Jennifer Taback, Alain Valette, Henry Wilton, Kevin Wortman
Description 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

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Aug 27, 2007
09:00 AM - 09:50 AM
  Geometric Group Theory by Example
James Cannon
10:30 AM - 11:20 AM
  Coxeter and Artin groups
Ruth Charney (Brandeis University)
01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
  A crash course on mapping class groups, I: Algebra versus topology
Benson Farb
02:00 PM - 02:50 PM
  Cohomology of Coxeter groups and buildings
Michael Davis
03:45 PM - 04:45 PM
  Homomorphisms to mapping class groups
Daniel Groves
Aug 28, 2007
09:00 AM - 09:50 AM
  Quasi-isometric rigidity
Bruce Kleiner
10:30 AM - 11:20 AM
  Finiteness properties and Bestvina-Brady Morse theory
Ian Leary
01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
  Curvature in Group Theory
James Cannon
02:00 PM - 02:50 PM
  Automorphisms of Graph Products
Kim Ruane
03:45 PM - 04:45 PM
  An introduction to Thompson's group F
Jennifer Taback
Aug 29, 2007
09:00 AM - 09:50 AM
  Coxeter and Artin groups
Ruth Charney (Brandeis University)
10:30 AM - 11:20 AM
  A crash course in mapping class groups, II: Moduli space and the Thurston Classification
Benson Farb
11:30 AM - 12:20 PM
  Quasi-isometric rigidity
Bruce Kleiner
Aug 30, 2007
09:00 AM - 09:50 AM
  Finiteness properties and Bestvina-Brady Morse theory
Ian Leary
10:30 AM - 11:20 AM
  Curvature and Group Algorithms
James Cannon
01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
  Coxeter and Artin groups
Ruth Charney (Brandeis University)
03:45 PM - 04:35 PM
  SL(n,Z[t]) is not FP_(n-1)
Kevin Wortman
Aug 31, 2007
09:00 AM - 09:50 AM
  Quasi-isometric rigidity
Bruce Kleiner
10:30 AM - 11:20 AM
  A crash course on mapping class groups, II: The Torelli group
Benson Farb
01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
  Finiteness properties and Bestvina-Brady Morse theory
Ian Leary
02:00 PM - 02:50 PM
  Triangle, Squares and Biautomaticity
Jon McCammond
03:45 PM - 04:35 PM
  Subgroup separability in residually free groups
Henry Wilton