Special Sessions on Geometric Group Theory
Organizer: Shicheng Wang
Special Sessions on Geometric Group
Theory and Related Topics I.
August 13, 2002, 13:30--17:10pm.
- 13:30--14:00, Coornaert
(IRMA, universite de Strasbourg
)
Growth of conjugacy classes in Gromov hyperbolic groups
- 14:05--14:35, Fujiwara, Koji
(Tohoku University
)
Quasi-homomorphisms on groups acting on CAT(0) spaces
- 14:40--15:10, Illman, Soren
(University of
)
Hilbert's fifth problem and proper actions of Lie groups
- 15:10--15:30, Tea and Coffee.
- 15:30--16:00, Hermiller, Susan
(University of Nebraska
)
Finiteness conditions for groups and monoids
- 16:05--16:35, Yang, Zhiqing
(UCLA
)
A construction of p-adic group action on Menger compacta
- 16:40--17:10, Jiang, Boju
(Peking University
)
3-Manifolds that admit knotted solenoids as attractors
- 17:15--17:45, Zuk, Andrzej
(ENS Lyon, France
)
Automata groups
Special Sessions on Geometric Group
Theory and Related Topics II.
August 16, 2002, 9:00am--12:05pm.
- 9:00--9:30, Verchinine, Vladimir
(Universite Montpellier II, FRANCE
)
Semigroup of three-page embeddings of singular knots
- 9:35--10:05, Roushon, S. K.
(Tata Institute, INDIA
)
Topology of 3-manifolds and a class of groups
- 10:10--10:40, Bao, Zhiqiang
(Peking University
)
The compressibility of checkerboard surfaces of link diagrams
- 10:40--11:00, Tea and Coffee.
- 11:00--11:30, Koudriavtseva, Elena
(Moscow State University
)
An analog for surface groups of a theorem of Magnus
- 11:35--12:05, Hayat, Claude
(University Toulouse France
)
TBA.
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