Home /  Geometric and Topological Aspects of Group Theory

Workshop

Geometric and Topological Aspects of Group Theory May 08, 2000 - May 12, 2000
Registration Deadline: January 12, 2001 almost 24 years ago
To apply for Funding you must register by: February 08, 2000 almost 25 years ago
Parent Program: --
Organizers Roger Alperin, Marc Culler, Benson Farb, and Peter Shalen
Speaker(s)

Show List of Speakers

Description
No Description
Keywords and Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC)
Primary Mathematics Subject Classification No Primary AMS MSC
Secondary Mathematics Subject Classification No Secondary AMS MSC
Funding & Logistics Show All Collapse

Show Funding

To apply for funding, you must register by the funding application deadline displayed above.

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.

Show Lodging

For information about recommended hotels for visits of under 30 days, visit Short-Term Housing. Questions? Contact coord@slmath.org.

Show Directions to Venue

Show Visa/Immigration

Schedule, Notes/Handouts & Videos
Show Schedule, Notes/Handouts & Videos
Show All Collapse
May 08, 2000
Monday
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Uniform exponential growth
Roger Alperin
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Negative curvature and residual finiteness
Dani Wise
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Automorphisms of Coxeter groups
Ruth Charney (Brandeis University)
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  The geometry of spaces of finite labelled trees
Karen Vogtmann (University of Warwick)
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Combings of groups and grammatical complexity
Martin Bridson (University of Oxford; Clay Mathematics Institute )
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  The large scale geometry of graphs of groups
Kevin Whyte (University of Illinois, Chicago)
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Quasi-actions on trees
Lee Mosher (Rutgers University)
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Van Kampen's embedding obstruction for discrete groups
Mladen Bestvina (University of Utah)
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Pushouts (after Serre and Gersten-Stallings)
Benson Farb
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  The topology at infinity of Out(F_n)
Mark Feighn (Rutgers University)
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Dimensions of CAT(0) E(G) and underline[Macro error: Can't evaluate the expression because the name "E" hasn't been defined.] (G) spaces
Noel Brady (University of Oklahoma)
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Smallish knots in small 3-manifolds
Marc Culler
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Boundary slopes of knots, and 3-manifolds with cyclic fundamental group
Peter Shalen
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  CAT(0) structures on 3-manifold groups
Hyam Rubinstein
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Canonical splittings of groups and of 3-manifolds
Peter Scott
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Abelian subgroups of Out(F_n)
Mike Handel
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Ends and boundaries of groups
Geoffrey Mess
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  CAT(0) cube complexes and the Kropholler-Roller conjecture
Michah Sageev