Geometric and Probabilistic Methods in Group Theory and Dynamical Systems

Texas A&M University, Department of Mathematics, College Station, TX

Schedule for THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2005

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RUDDER TOWER, ROOM 301

9:00-9:40
Gilbert Baumslag  TBA
9:50-10:30
Alexander Ol'shanskii Dehn functions of groups: between quadratic and nonrecursive
10:30-11:00
COFEE BREAK
11:00-11:40
Mark Sapir Groups acting on tree-graded spaces
11:50-12:30
Cameron Gordon
Algebraic knots with unknotting number 1
12:30-2:00
LUNCH BREAK

2:00-2:40
Alex Eskin Quasi-isometric rigidity of SOL
2:50-3:30
Mladen Bestvina
On the QI rigidity of right angled Artin groups
3:30-4:00
COFEE BREAK
4:00-4:30
Denis Osin Peripheral fillings of relatively hyperbolic groups
4:40-5:10
Miklos Abert
Random actions on trees

PARALLEL SESSIONS


ROOM 301
ROOM 302
ROOM 501
ROOM 308
5:20-5:40 Dave Morris
Pallavi Dani
Francesco Matucci
Lucas Sabalka

Some arithmetic groups that cannot act on the line
The asymptotic density of finite-order elements in infinite groups
The Simultaneous Conjugacy Problem for Thompson's Group F is solvable
A rigidity result for tree braid groups
5:45-6:05
Daniel Groves
Robert Young
Laura Ciobanu
Nick Koban

The Isomorphism Problem for toral relatively hyperbolic groups
Averaged Dehn Functions for Nilpotent Groups
Examples of retracts in a free group that are not the fixed subgroup of any group of automorphisms
The Geometric Invariant Omega^n of a Product of Groups



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