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Introduction to Geometric Group Theory August 27, 2007 - August 31, 2007

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Aug 27, 2007 Monday	09:00 AM - 09:50 AM   Geometric Group Theory by Example James Cannon Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts 12537.pdf 2.54 MB application/pdf View Schedule 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM   Coxeter and Artin groups Ruth Charney (Brandeis University) Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts 12538.pdf 796 KB application/pdf View Schedule 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM   A crash course on mapping class groups, I: Algebra versus topology Benson Farb (University of Illinois) Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts 12539.pdf 564 KB application/pdf View Schedule 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM   Cohomology of Coxeter groups and buildings Michael Davis (Ohio State University) Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts -- View Schedule 03:45 PM - 04:45 PM   Homomorphisms to mapping class groups Daniel Groves Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts 12541.pdf 348 KB application/pdf View Schedule
Aug 28, 2007 Tuesday	09:00 AM - 09:50 AM   Quasi-isometric rigidity Bruce Kleiner Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video -- Abstracts/Handouts -- View Schedule 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM   Finiteness properties and Bestvina-Brady Morse theory Ian Leary Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts 12542.pdf 184 KB application/pdf View Schedule 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM   Curvature in Group Theory James Cannon Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts 12543.pdf 2.67 MB application/pdf View Schedule 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM   Automorphisms of Graph Products Kim Ruane Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts 12544.pdf 242 KB application/pdf View Schedule 03:45 PM - 04:45 PM   An introduction to Thompson's group F Jennifer Taback Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts 12545.pdf 4.01 MB application/pdf View Schedule
Aug 29, 2007 Wednesday	09:00 AM - 09:50 AM   Coxeter and Artin groups Ruth Charney (Brandeis University) Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts 12546.pdf 715 KB application/pdf View Schedule 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM   A crash course in mapping class groups, II: Moduli space and the Thurston Classification Benson Farb (University of Illinois) Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts 12547.pdf 340 KB application/pdf View Schedule 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM   Quasi-isometric rigidity Bruce Kleiner Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts 12548.pdf 80.5 KB application/pdf View Schedule
Aug 30, 2007 Thursday	09:00 AM - 09:50 AM   Finiteness properties and Bestvina-Brady Morse theory Ian Leary Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts 12549.pdf 788 KB application/pdf View Schedule 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM   Curvature and Group Algorithms James Cannon Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts -- View Schedule 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM   Coxeter and Artin groups Ruth Charney (Brandeis University) Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts -- View Schedule 03:45 PM - 04:35 PM   SL(n,Z[t]) is not FP_(n-1) Kevin Wortman Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts -- View Schedule
Aug 31, 2007 Friday	09:00 AM - 09:50 AM   Quasi-isometric rigidity Bruce Kleiner Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts 12554.pdf 75.4 KB application/pdf View Schedule 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM   A crash course on mapping class groups, II: The Torelli group Benson Farb (University of Illinois) Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts -- View Schedule 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM   Finiteness properties and Bestvina-Brady Morse theory Ian Leary Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts -- View Schedule 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM   Triangle, Squares and Biautomaticity Jon McCammond (University of California, Santa Barbara) Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts -- View Schedule 03:45 PM - 04:35 PM   Subgroup separability in residually free groups Henry Wilton Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts -- View Schedule