Wednesday 26th to Friday 28th August 2026 in Aberdeen, UK.

The workshop "Groups and Stable Homotopy Theory" will take place at the University of Aberdeen, starting on the morning of Wednesday the 26th of August 2026, and finishing at noon on Friday the 28th of August 2026. It is dedicated to the recent developments which connect geometric group theory and stable homotopy theory.  The workshop is the concluding event of the EPSRC grant Classifying spaces, proper actions and stable homotopy theory. 

All talks will take place at the old Aberdeen campus, in the Fraser Noble building, room FN2. 

Invited speakers

• Naomi Andrew (Paris-Saclay University, France)

• Miguel Barrero (University of Aberdeen, UK)

• Lukas Brantner (University of Oxford, UK)

• Gijs Heuts (University of Utrecht, Netherlands)

• Sam Hughes (University of Bonn, Germany)

• Ian Leary (University of Southampton, UK)

• Sil Linskens (University of Regensburg, Germany)

• Wolfgang Lück (University of Bonn, Germany)

• Constanze Roitzheim (University of Kent, UK)

We will have limited funding for the UK based PhD students and ECRs. We will also have several contributed talks by ECRs and PhD students. 

To register please fill out this form. PhD students and ECRs can request funding and submit abstracts for contributed talks  using the form. The deadline for funding and the contributed talks is the 1st of July. 

Organisers: Miguel Barrero and Irakli Patchkoria

We gratefully acknowledge financial contributions from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [grant number EP/X038424/1]; and the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research.