GAGTA-2018

The annual conference GAGTA (Geometric and Asymptotic Group Theory with Applications) will take place in 2018 at Korea Institute for Advanced Study (Seoul, Korea). The conference will focus on interactions between geometric group theory and low-dimensional topology, with an emphasis on the theory of braid groups.

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Venue KIAS

Dates July 15 - 20, 2018.

Contact gagta2018@googlegroups.com

Regarding NSF support for flights (US-based participants only) : thomas.koberda@gmail.com

● Mini Course Speaker

Mark Hagen (University of Bristol)

Saul Schleimer (University of Warwick)

● Invited Speakers

Jayadev Athreya (University of Washington)

Hyungryul Baik (KAIST)

Oleg Bogopolski (University of Düsseldorf)

Montserrat Casals-Ruiz (University of the Basque Country)

Laura Ciobanu (Heriot-Watt University)

Murray Elder (University of technology Sydney)

Federica Fanoni (University of Heidelberg)

Koji Fujiwara (Kyoto University)

Ilya Gehktman (Yale University) : canceled

Anish Ghosh (Tata Institute) : canceled

Sebastian Hensel (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)

Ilya Kazachkov (University of the Basque Country)

Eiko Kin (Osaka University)

Sang-Jin Lee (Konkuk University)

Seonhee Lim (Seoul National University)

Yash Lodha (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)

Jon McCammond (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Bram Petri (University of Bonn)

Vladimir Shpilrain (The City University of New York)

Alex Suciu (Northeastern University) : canceled

Ser Peow Tan (National University of Singapore)

Enric Ventura (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)

Jie Wu (National University of Singapore)

● Organizing Committee

Hyungryul Baik (KAIST) : hrbaik(aht)kaist.ac.kr

Inkang Kim (KIAS) : inkang(aht)kias.re.kr

Sang-hyun Kim (Seoul National University) : s.kim(aht)snu.ac.kr

Ki Hyoung Ko (KAIST) : knot(aht)kaist.ac.kr

Thomas Koberda (University of Virginia) : thomas.koberda(aht)gmail.com

Sang-jin Lee (Konkuk University) : sangjin(aht)konkuk.ac.kr

Seonhee Lim (Seoul National University) : slim(aht)snu.ac.kr

Hyunshik Shin (KAIST) : hshin@kaist.ac.kr

● Scientific Committee

Sang-hyun Kim (Seoul National University)

Ki Hyoung Ko (KAIST)

Thomas Koberda (University of Virginia)

Juan González-Meneses (University of Sevilla)

Vladimir Shpilrain (The City College, CUNY)

Sasha Ushakov (Stevens Institute of Technology).

Pascal Weil (CNRS and Université de Bordeaux)

● Organizing institutions

KIAS

KAIST

Seoul National University (BK21Plus)

● Sponsors

National Research Foundation of Korea

National Science Foundation (NSF grant DMS-1818917)

Samsung Science and Technology Foundation