schedule

RUDDER TOWER, ROOM 301

9:00-9:40	Sorin Popa	Superrigidity of Bernoulli actions
9:50-10:30	Dimitri Shlyakhtenko	Free entropy dimension for groups
10:30-11:00	COFEE BREAK
11:00-11:30	Erik Guentner	Geometry of groups and approximation in group C*-algebras
11:40-12:10	Kevin Pilgrim	Uniformly quasiconformal dynamical systems are ubiquitous
12:10-1:40	LUNCH BREAK
1:40-2:20	Volodymyr Nekrashevych	Thurston equivalence of topological polynomials
2:30-3:10	Alan Reid	Large covers of arithmetic 3-manifolds
3:10-3:40	COFEE BREAK
3:40-4:20	Étienne Ghys	Geodesics on the modular surface
4:30-5:10	Persi Diaconis	Gelfand Pairs

PARALLEL SESSIONS

	ROOM 301	ROOM 302	ROOM 501	ROOM 308
5:20-5:40	Charles Radin	Anne Thomas	Adam Piggott	Jason Behrstock
	The geometric symmetry of dense packings	Lattices in automorphism groups of hyperbolic buildings	Groups Ends and the Todd--Coxeter Procedure	Thick metric spaces, relative hyperbolicity, and quasi-isometric rigidity
5:45-6:05	Martin Kassabov	Ievgen Bondarenko	Genevieve Walsh	Angela Barnhill
	Small presentations of finite simple groups	Uniform measure on limit spaces	Surfaces in finite covers and the group determinant	Actions and related special decompositions of Coxeter groups