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We plan to have a workshop and short courses around the topic of geometric group theory, with particular emphasis on new ideas and directions of research in the field, and connections to analysis, statistics, probability, enumerative combinatorics, geometry and topology, and logic.

The workshop will take place at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, from 14-18 Dec 2009.

Short course presenters: Danny Calegari, Caltech, Stable commutator length
                                                    Graham Niblo, Southampton, Amenability, property A, and bounded cohomology
 
Public lecture: Special talk by Daryl Cooper at BrisScience on Monday 14 December, 6:30pm City Hall.
                               Numbers: From -1 to 2 raised to the power of infinity

What is...? presenters:  Yves de Cornulier, Rennes, ... the space of all finitely generated groups?
                                               Daniel Groves, UI Chicago,  ... the first order theory of groups?
                                               Joseph Maher, CUNY, ... statistical group theory?
                                               Alexei Miasnikov, McGill, ...generic complexity?
 
Research talks: Noel Brady, Oklahoma
                                Daryl Cooper, UC Santa Barbara
                                Yves de Cornulier, Rennes, On asymptotic cones of Lie groups
                                Moon Duchin, Michigan, Limit shapes in groups
                                Daniel Groves, UI Chicago, Parametrizing surface bundles
                                Elmas Irmak, Bowling Green State
                                Olga Kharlampovich, McGill
                                Joseph Maher, CUNY
                                Jon McCammond, UC Santa Barbara
                                Alexei Miasnikov, McGill
                                Masato Mimura, University of Tokyo, Fixed point properties and second bounded cohomology of universal lattices on Banach spaces
                                Walter Neumann, Columbia/Barnard
                                Claas Röver, National Univ of Ireland, Galway
                                Anne Thomas, Oxford
                                Sasha Ushakov, Stevens

Organisers:  Murray Elder, University of Queensland
                         Lawrence Reeves, The University of Melbourne
                         Stephan Tillmann, University of Queensland

We gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the following organisations:
Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute
Australian Mathematical Society
as well as additional support from SMP and the Faculty of Science at UQ