Home » Workshop » Schedule

Schedule

Topics in Geometric Group Theory November 05, 2007 - November 09, 2007

• Agenda View
• Calendar View

Show All Collapse

Nov 05, 2007 Monday	09:00 AM - 09:50 AM   Coarse Differentiation and the Geometry of Polycyclic Groups Alex Eskin Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts -- View Schedule 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM   Y. Shalom Lecture Yehuda Shalom Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts -- View Schedule 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM   On Asymptotic Dimension of Coxeter Groups Alexander Dranishnikov Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts -- View Schedule 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM   Median Spaces and Applications Indira Chatterji (Eidgenössische TH Zürich-Zentrum) Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts -- View Schedule
Nov 06, 2007 Tuesday	09:00 AM - 09:50 AM   Automorphism Groups of Right-angled Artin Groups Karen Vogtmann (Cornell University) Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts -- View Schedule 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM   Higher Isoperimetric Inequalities for Complexes and Groups Panagiotis Papazoglou Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts -- View Schedule 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM   Lattices Acting on Polyhedral Complexes Anne Thomas Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts -- View Schedule 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM   Normal Automorphisms of Relatively Hyperbolic Groups Denis Osin Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts -- View Schedule 03:30 PM - 04:20 PM   Rank-1 Isometries on CAT(0) Spaces and Quasi-homomorphisms Koji Fujiwara Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts -- View Schedule
Nov 07, 2007 Wednesday	09:00 AM - 09:50 AM   A Family of Simple Groups Acting on Buildings Bertrand REMY Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts 12576ppt.pdf 1 MB application/pdf View Schedule 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM   Dimension of Torelli Groups Dan Margalit Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts 12577-ppt.pdf 868 KB application/pdf View Schedule 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM   On the Homology of Finite Index Subgroups of the Mapping Class Group Thomas Putman Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts 12578.pdf 1.13 MB application/pdf View Schedule 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM   Quasi-isometric Rigidity of the Mapping Class Groups Jason Behrstock Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts 12579.pdf 2.29 MB application/pdf View Schedule 03:30 PM - 04:20 PM   L^2 Cohomology of Buildings Jan Dymara Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts 12580.pdf 1.99 MB application/pdf View Schedule
Nov 08, 2007 Thursday	09:00 AM - 09:50 AM   Geometric Makanin Algorithm for Solving Equations in Virtually Free Groups Vincent Guirardel Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts -- View Schedule 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM   Global fixed points for centralizers and Morita's Theorem (joint work with John Franks) Michael Handel Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts -- View Schedule 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM   Krull Dimension for Limit Groups Larsen Louder Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts -- View Schedule 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM   Space of Marked Groups and Non-uniform Exponential Growth Volodymyr Nekrashevych Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts -- View Schedule
Nov 09, 2007 Friday	10:30 AM - 11:30 AM   Groups with Fixed Point Properties Tadeusz Januszkiewicz Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts -- View Schedule 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM   Residual Finiteness and Separability of Quasi-convex Subgroups Jason Manning Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts -- View Schedule 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM   Kleiner's Proof of the Polynomial Growth Theorem David Fisher Location MSRI: Simons Auditorium Video Abstracts/Handouts -- View Schedule