Geometric and Probabilistic Methods in Group Theory and Dynamical Systems

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

Schedule for FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2005

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RUDDER TOWER, ROOM 301

9:00-9:40
Efim Zelmanov Asymptotic properties of infinite algebras
9:50-10:30
Anatole Katok Nets and  lattices  in  Euclidean spaces and cocycles over the Weyl chamber flow
10:30-11:00
COFEE BREAK
11:00-11:40
Tatiana Smirnova-Nagnibeda Boundary measures on metric trees and study of the Outer space
11:50-12:30
Karen Vogtmann Structure at infinity of Outer space
12:30-2:00
LUNCH BREAK

2:00-2:40
Shahar Mozes Automata and Square Complexes
2:50-3:30
Yaroslav Vorobets Free groups defined  by finite automata
3:30-4:00
COFEE BREAK

PARALLEL SESSIONS


ROOM 301
ROOM 302
ROOM 401
ROOM 308
4:00-4:20 Graham Niblo
Lewis Bowen Patrick Ion
Anna Wienhard

Minimal cubings and intersection numbers A Generalization of the Prime Geodesic Theorem to Counting Conjugacy Classes of Free Subgroups
Geometrical Fourier Transforms in the Newtonian N-Body Problem
Symplectic Anosov structures on Riemann surfaces
4:25-4:45
Frank Herrlich
Yves Stalder Alexander Felshtyn
Dmitriy Sonkin

A Teichmüller curve intersecting infinitely many others
Limits of Baumslag-Solitar groups
Twisted Burnside theorem
Compression of uniform embeddings into Hilbert space
5:00-5:20
David Fisher
Seonhee Lim
Yaroslav Krylyuk
Gabriela Schmithüsen

Super-rigidity and harmonic maps into infinite dimensional spaces Minimal volume entropy on graphs
The Hessenberg tridiagonal form of the Hecke type operator of the quasi-regular representation for Grigorchuk's group
Congruence and non congruence groups that are Veech groups of special Teichmueller curves
5:25-5:45 Chris Hruska
Xiangdong Xie
Daniela Nikolova-Popova
Jayadev Athreya

Cubulating relatively hyperbolic groups
Uniform exponential growth of relatively hyperbolic groups
On the solubility of finite groups satisfying certain two-variable commutator  identities
Quantitative recurrence and large deviations for Teichmuller geodesic flow

5:50-6:30
Martin Bridson
Tubular groups, snowflake words and isoperimetric spectra



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