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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
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
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