Talks will be held in Hawken Building (50), room T203. The room has 6 blackboards, data projector, document cameras etc. After each 30/40/50 minute talk/course we have allowed 10 minutes for questions/discussion, followed by a break. Monday 14
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9-10 |
short course: Danny Calegari (50 min) Stable commutator length (1)
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10:20-11:20 |
Jon McCammond (50 min) Braid groups and buildings |
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break |
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11:30-12:10 |
What is...? Yves Cornulier (30 min) What is the space of all finitely generated groups? |
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lunch |
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2-3 |
Noel Brady (50 min) The relation gap problem |
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break |
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3:20-4:20
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Moon Duchin (50 min) Limit shapes in groups |
ferry to city
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6:30-8:30 |
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Tuesday 15
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9-10 |
short course: Graham Niblo (50 min) Coarse geometry: what happens when analysis and geometry collide (1) |
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break |
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10:20-11:20 |
Sasha Ushakov (50 min) Strong law of large numbers for graph(group)-valued random elements |
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break |
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11:30-12:10 |
What is...? Daniel Groves (30 min)
What is the first order theory of groups? |
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lunch |
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2-3 |
Yves Cornulier (50 min)
On asymptotic cones of Lie groups |
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break |
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3:20-4
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Elmas Irmak (30 min)
Superinjective Simplicial Maps of the Complexes of Curves on Nonorientable Surfaces |
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4:10-5
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Olga Khalampovich (40 min)
Algorithmic problems for fully residually free groups |
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Southbank/City |
Wednesday 16
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9-10 |
short course: Danny Calegari (50 min) Stable commutator length (2) |
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break |
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10:20-11:20 |
Daniel Groves (50 min) Parametrizing surface bundles |
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break |
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11:30-12:10 |
What is...? Joseph Maher (30 min)
What is statistical group theory? |
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free afternoon. see activities for ideas of things to do | Thursday 17
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9-10 |
short course: Graham Niblo (50 min)
Coarse geometry: what happens when analysis and geometry collide (2) |
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break |
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10:20-11:20 |
Anne Thomas (50 min) Covolumes of lattices in complete Kac-Moody groups
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break |
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11:30-12:10 |
What is...? Alexei Miasnokov (30 min)
What is generic complexity? |
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lunch |
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2-3 |
Joseph Maher (50 min)
Generic Elements in the Mapping Class Group |
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break |
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3:20-4
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Masato Mimura (30 min)
Fixed point properties and second bounded cohomology of universal lattices on Banach spaces |
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break |
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4:10-5
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Claas Röver (40 min)
The Conjugacy Problem in Virtually Free and Hyperbolic Groups |
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Conference Cocktail Reception at UQ Art Museum. Dress: Queensland semi-formal. |
Friday 18
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short course: Danny Calegari (50 min) Stable commutator length (3)
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Daryl Cooper (50 min)
The marked length spectrum of a projective manifold or orbifold. |
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Alexei Miasnikov (40 min)
TBA |
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Alumni court |
2-3
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Walter Neumann (50 min)
Quasi-isometry of 3-manifold groups |
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Swim at the "beach" at Southbank, and pub | |