Conference Schedule
Friday, Oct 13
- 4:00--5:00 Registration
- 5:00--5:10 Opening remarks
- 5:10--6:00
- Walter Neumann: Surface subgroups of 3-manifold groups and the LERF property
- 6:10--6:30 Short Talks 1
- 7:00 Dinner
- 9:00
Demonstration of
Magnus software
Saturday, Oct 14
- 8:00--9:00 Breakfast
- 9:00--9:50
- Jon McCammond: Calculating curvature in concrete complexes
- 10:00--10:20 Short talks 2
- 10:30--10:50 Short talks 3
- 11:00-11:50
- Chuck Miller: Subgroups of direct products
- 12:00--2:00 Lunch
- 2:00--2:50
- Roger Alperin: Exponential and uniform exponential growth
- 3:00--3:20 Short talks 4
- 3:30--3:50 Short talks 5
- 4:00--4:50
- Kevin Whyte: The large scale geometry of graphs of groups
- 5:00--5:20 Short talks 6
- 5:30--5:50 Short talks 7
- 6:30--7:30 Dinner
- 8:00-- Rensselaerville Multiplex
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Sunday, Oct 15
- 8:00--9:00 Breakfast
- 9:00--9:20 Short talks 8
- 9:30--9:50 Short talks 9
- 10:00--10:50
- Olga Kharlampovich: The canonical JSJ decomposition for fully residually free groups and Krull dimension of F_n
- 11:00--11:50 `State of the art'
round table discussion
- 12:00--1:00 Lunch
- 1:10--2:00
- Boris Goldfarb: Homological algebra of geometric groups
- 2:10---2:30 Short talks 10
- 2:40---3:00 Short talks 11