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Introduction to Geometric Group Theory August 27, 2007 - August 31, 2007
Registration Deadline: August 31, 2007 over 17 years ago
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Organizers Mladen Bestvina, Jon McCammond, Michah Sageev, Karen Vogtmann
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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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Students, recent PhDs, women, and members of underrepresented minorities are particularly encouraged to apply. Funding awards are typically made 6 weeks before the workshop begins. Requests received after the funding deadline are considered only if additional funds become available.

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Aug 27, 2007
Monday
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 (University of Chicago)
02:00 PM - 02:50 PM
  Cohomology of Coxeter groups and buildings
Michael Davis (Ohio State University)
03:45 PM - 04:45 PM
  Homomorphisms to mapping class groups
Daniel Groves (University of Illinois, Chicago)
Aug 28, 2007
Tuesday
09:00 AM - 09:50 AM
  Quasi-isometric rigidity
10:30 AM - 11:20 AM
  Finiteness properties and Bestvina-Brady Morse theory
Ian Leary (University of Southampton)
01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
  Curvature in Group Theory
James Cannon
02:00 PM - 02:50 PM
  Automorphisms of Graph Products
Kim Ruane (Tufts University)
03:45 PM - 04:45 PM
  An introduction to Thompson's group F
Jennifer Taback
Aug 29, 2007
Wednesday
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 (University of Chicago)
11:30 AM - 12:20 PM
  Quasi-isometric rigidity
Aug 30, 2007
Thursday
09:00 AM - 09:50 AM
  Finiteness properties and Bestvina-Brady Morse theory
Ian Leary (University of Southampton)
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 (University of Utah)
Aug 31, 2007
Friday
09:00 AM - 09:50 AM
  Quasi-isometric rigidity
10:30 AM - 11:20 AM
  A crash course on mapping class groups, II: The Torelli group
Benson Farb (University of Chicago)
01:00 PM - 01:50 PM
  Finiteness properties and Bestvina-Brady Morse theory
Ian Leary (University of Southampton)
02:00 PM - 02:50 PM
  Triangle, Squares and Biautomaticity
Jon McCammond (University of California, Santa Barbara)
03:45 PM - 04:35 PM
  Subgroup separability in residually free groups
Henry Wilton (Center for Mathematical Sciences)