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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.

Confirmed speakers:
 Noel Brady  Oklahoma  Joseph Maher  CUNY
 Danny Calegari  Caltech  Jon McCammond  UC Santa Barbara
 Daryl Cooper  UC Santa Barbara  Alexei Miasnikov  McGill/Stevens
 Yves de Cornulier  Rennes  Masato Mimura  University of Tokyo
 Moon Duchin  Michigan  Walter Neumann  Columbia/Barnard
 Danny Groves  UI Chicago  Graham Niblo  Southampton
 Elmas Irmak  Bowling Green State  Anne Thomas  Oxford
 Olga Kharlampovich  McGill  Sasha Ushakov  Stevens

Short course presenters: Danny Calegari, Caltech. "Stable commutator length".
                                                    Graham Niblo, Southampton. "Amenability, property A, and bounded cohomology".

What is...? presenters:  Yves de Cornulier, Rennes, "...the space of all finitely generated groups?"
                                               Danny Groves, UI Chicago,  "... first order logic and what does it have to do with groups?"
                                               Joseph Maher, CUNY, "... statistical group theory?"

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."

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