Schedule of short talks

Main Schedule

Session	Guggenheim Auditorium	Master Seminar Room
Session 1 Fri 6:10--6:30	Cohen The surjectivity problem for 1-gen 1-rel extensions of torsion free groups	Reiter The large scale geometry of products of trees
Session 2 Sat 10:00--10:20	Bumagina Subgroups of torsion free hyperbolic groups are Hopf	Elder Finiteness and almost convexity
Session 3 Sat 10:30--10:50	Johannes Coloured unlinking	Meakin Subgroups of free groups: on the Hanna Neumann conjecture
Session 4 Sat 3:00--3:20	Conant Gropes, claspers and finite type invariants	Meier The groups of symmetric automorphisms of F_n is a virtual duality group
Session 5 Sat 3:30--3:50	Kapovich Subgroup properties of word-hyperbolic groups	Forester Rigidity and flexibility of group actions on trees
Session 6 Sat 5:00--5:20	Weidmann Subgroups of fundamental groups of graphs of groups	Gaglione Are some groups less discriminating than others?
Session 7 Sat 5:30--5:50	Piollet Symmetries and mapping class groups	Ventura Counting primitive elements in the free group
Session 8 Sun 9:00--9:20	Sunik Growth considerations in Grigorchuk 2-groups	Jitsukawa Finitely generated malnormal subgroups of free groups
Session 9 Sun 9:30--9:50	Hruska Quasi-convexity in non-positively curved spaces with isolated flats	Rosenberg Infinite towers of uniform tree lattices
Session 10 Sun 2:10--2:30	Papasoglu Quasi-isometry invariance of group splittings	Shpilrain Whitehead's algorithm revised
Session 11 Sun 2:40--3:00	Cleary Computing rotation distance with Thompson's group F	Khan On the Hanna Neumann conjecture