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