Workshop

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  
 9-10
 short course: Danny Calegari (50 min)
Stable commutator length (1)
 
 10:20-11:20
 Jon McCammond (50 min)
 Braid groups and buildings
 break
 
 11:30-12:10
 What is...? Yves Cornulier (30 min)
 What is the space of all finitely generated groups?
 lunch
 2-3
 Noel Brady (50 min)
 The relation gap problem
 break
 
 3:20-4:20
 Moon Duchin (50 min)
 Limit shapes in groups
 ferry to city
 
 6:30-8:30
BrisScience special talk by Daryl Cooper, followed by drinks and nibbles.
(Directions to City Hall.)

Tuesday 15

 9-10
 short course: Graham Niblo (50 min)
Coarse geometry: what happens when analysis and geometry collide (1)
 break
 
 10:20-11:20
 Sasha Ushakov (50 min)
 Strong law of large numbers for graph(group)-valued random elements
 break
 
 11:30-12:10
  What is...? Daniel Groves (30 min)
 What is the first order theory of groups?
 lunch
 Natural amphitheatre, by the lake.
 2-3
 Yves Cornulier (50 min)
On asymptotic cones of Lie groups
 break
 
 3:20-4
 Elmas Irmak (30 min)
Superinjective Simplicial Maps of the Complexes of Curves on Nonorientable Surfaces
break 
 
4:10-5
 Olga Khalampovich (40 min)
 Algorithmic problems for fully residually free groups
 
 Southbank/City

Wednesday 16

 9-10
 short course: Danny Calegari (50 min)
Stable commutator length (2)
 break
 
 10:20-11:20
Daniel Groves (50 min)
Parametrizing surface bundles
 break

 
 11:30-12:10
 What is...? Joseph Maher (30 min)
 What is statistical group theory?
 
 free afternoon. see activities for ideas of things to do
  Thursday 17  
 9-10
 short course: Graham Niblo (50 min)
 Coarse geometry: what happens when analysis and geometry collide (2)
 break
 
 10:20-11:20
 Anne Thomas (50 min)
 Covolumes of lattices in complete Kac-Moody groups
 break
 
 11:30-12:10
 What is...? Alexei Miasnokov (30 min)
 What is generic complexity?
 lunch
 2-3
 Joseph Maher (50 min)
 Generic Elements in the Mapping Class Group
 break
 
 3:20-4
 Masato Mimura (30 min)
 Fixed point properties and second bounded cohomology of universal lattices on Banach spaces
break
 
4:10-5
 Claas Röver (40 min)
 The Conjugacy Problem in Virtually Free and Hyperbolic Groups
 
 
 6:30-8:30  Conference Cocktail Reception at UQ Art Museum. Dress: Queensland semi-formal.

Friday 18

 9-10  short course: Danny Calegari  (50 min)
 Stable commutator length (3)
 break  
 10:20-11:20
 Daryl Cooper (50 min)
 The marked length spectrum of a projective manifold or orbifold.
 break

 

 11:30-12:20
 Alexei Miasnikov (40 min)
 TBA
 lunch  Alumni court
 2-3

 Walter Neumann (50 min)

 Quasi-isometry of 3-manifold groups

  Swim at the "beach" at Southbank, and pub