World of Group Craft is a short, international conference with an emphasis on Early Career researchers in Geometric Group Theory. It will last for 25 hours straight, and aims to be a relaxed event, run on coffee and Zoom.
The shift to Zoom and digital meetings has awesome potential for much wider dispersal of research and provides greater opportunities for folk to attend events like this and to engage with researchers from all over the world - so let's make the most of it while we can!
Attendees are expected to be students or identify as Early Career Researchers. There is no obligation to be awake for the entire 25hrs.
Date: Thursday 26th August, 2021 .
Start: 9am Sydney (UTC+10)
End: 5pm West Coast US (UTC-7)
Talks+times can be found on researchseminars.org. This sites lists talks in your local time zone.
Note. timeanddate.com allows you to convert multiple times to your own time zone. For example, this link gives the start time of the conference listed in multiple time zones.
Invited Speakers
Session 1
João Vitor Pinto e Silva (U. Newcastle)
Junseok Kim (KAIST)
Dmitry Berdinsky (Mahidol U.)
Xiaobing Sheng (U. Tokyo)
Tomoshige Yukita (Waseda U.)
Robert Tang (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool U.)
Session 2
Arghya Mondal (TIFR Mumbai)
Tushar Kanta Naik (IISER Mohali)
Neha Nanda (IISER Mohali)
Soumya Dey (IMSc Chennai)
Swathi Krishna (CEBS Mumbai)
Ravi Tomar (IISER Mohali)
Session 3
Paul-Henry Leemann (U. Neuchâtel)
Xiaolei Wu (U. Bielefeld)
Yuri Santos Rego (U. Madgeburg)
Federico Berlai (U. Vienna)
Shayo Olukoya (U. St Andrews)
Giles Gardam (U. Münster)
Session 4
Naomi Andrew (U. Southampton)
Ihechukwu Chinyere (U. Essex)
Marco Linton (U. Warwick)
Bin Sun (U. Oxford)
Marialaura Noce (U. Göttingen)
Session 5
Ignat Soroko (Florida State U.)
Rylee Lyman (Rutgers U.–Newark)
Abdul Zalloum (Queens U.)
Mark Pengitore (Ohio State/ U. Virginia)
Jesús Hernández Hernández (UNAM, Campus Morelia)
Radhika Gupta (Temple U.)
Session 6
Slobodan Tanushevski (Fluminense Federal U.)
Sami Douba (McGill U.)
Nicolas Brody (U. California, Berkeley)
Ash DeClerk (U. Nebraska–Lincoln)
Arman Darbinyan (Texas A&M U.)
Contributed Talks
There is an opportunity for attendees to contribute short talks.
Talks should be at most 8 minutes long.
Deadline for suggesting a talk is Sunday 15th August.
Contributed talks will be hosted on YouTube.