More Examples of Groups (May 11-16, 2009)

The aim of this one week Summer school is to familiarize graduate students with several groups and classes of groups that often appear in geometric group theory.
This Summer School is supported by the National Science Foundation under CAREER Grant No. 0644613. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recomendations expressed here are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Fundation (NSF).

Speakers:

The following people have agreed to give a mini-course:

Goulnara Arzhantseva: Random groups, a guided tour. Exercises.
Kai-Uwe Bux: Thompson group. Exercises.
Pallavi Dani: Nilpotent groups. Exercises.
Manfred Einsiedler: SL(2,R). Exercises.
Shelly Harvey: Groups associated to knots and 3-manifolds. Exercices Part I.
Olga Kharlampovich: Limit groups
Seonhee Lim: Groups acting on trees and buildings
Tatiana Nagnibeda: Automata groups. Exercises Part I and Part II. References.

Moreover, we will have lectures by TaraLee Mecham (slides available here) and Helen Wong.

Program:

Participants will arrive Sunday May 10th, and check-in at that the Hampton Inn (rooms are booked by the organizers for each funded participant and speaker), conveniently located in the nicest Columbus neighborhood and to reach it from the airport take a cab (keep the receipt). The Hampton Inn is within a short bus ride to the math department, where classes will be held starting Monday May 11th. There will be a welcome dinner Sunday May 10th from 6 - 9pm in the 7th floor lounge of the Math Tower. If you arrive between 6 - 9pm in Columbus, do join us directly at the Math Tower, and otherwise go check in at the hotel first: there you will get instructions how to get to the Math Tower at 231 w18th ave, on the OSU campus.

There will be a party at the Mislin's on Tuesday evening, and there is a swimmingpool, so pack your swimmsuit!

The school will terminate Saturday May 16th at noon. Everybody is welcome! You can download a pdf version of the Program here.

The deadline for registration has passed.

Participants

Susan Abernathy
Juan Alonso
Owen Baker
Hadi Bigdely
Andrew Brasile
Theresa Dahlinghaus
Kamil Duszenko
Gregory Fein
Brie Finegold
Lena Folwanczny
Bridget Franklin
Joshua Grochow
Brad Groff
Mark Hagen
Yi Huang
Pradthana Jaipong
Kait Jones
Robin Lassonde
Michelle Lee
Hao Liang
Joel Louwsma
Ni Lu
Kathryn Mann
David McCune
Natalie McGathey
Sonja Mitchell
Silvia Onofrei
Carolyn Otto
Catherine Pfaff
Rosemary Putwain
Yulan Qing
Laura Rider
Andrew Sale
Michael Siler
Candace Schenk
Matthew Short
Amanda Taylor
Keith Thompson
Chih-Huei Wendy Wang
Carmen Weddell
erica Whitaker
Nina White

More information will be posted as it materializes. Meanwhile, feel free to e-mail me with questions or suggestions.


Organising comittee:

Indira Chatterji (chair)
Mike Davis
Honglin Min

Advising comittee:

Ruth Charney
Karen Vogtmann



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