Conference Schedule
Friday, Oct 9
- 4:00--5:00 Registration
- 5:00--5:10 Opening remarks
- 5:10--6:00
- Lisa Carbone: Trees, lattices and rank 1 groups of p-adic type
- 6:10--6:30 Short Talks 1
- 7:00 Dinner
- 8:30-9:00 The New York Journal demonstration
- 9:15 Magnus demonstration
Saturday, Oct 10
- 8:00--9:00 Breakfast
- 9:00--9:50
- Brian Bowditch: Boundaries of hyperbolic groups
- 10:00--10:20 Short talks 2
- 10:30--10:50 Short talks 3
- 11:00-11:50
- Sergei Ivanov: On aspherical group presentations
- 12:00--2:00 Lunch
- 2:00--2:50
- Jennifer Taback: Quasi-isometric rigidity and the geometry of PSL_2(Z[1/p])
- 3:00--3:20 Short talks 4
- 3:30--3:50 Short talks 5
- 4:00--4:50
- Allen Sieradski : A walk on the wild side of group theory
- 5:00--5:20 Short talks 6
- 5:30--5:50 Short talks 7
- 6:30--7:30 Dinner: Octoberfest
- 8:00
- American Originals: a program of songs by Copland,
- Bernstein, Ives and Gershwin
- Anne Turner, soprano and Richard Hihn, pianist
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Sunday, Oct 11
- 8:00--9:00 Breakfast
- 9:00--9:20 Short talks 8
- 9:30--9:50 Short talks 9
- 10:00--10:50
- Mladen Bestvina: Non-positively curved aspects of Artin groups of finite type
- 11:00--11:20 Short talks 10
- 11:30--11:50 Short talks 11
- 12:00--1:00 Lunch
- 1:10--2:00
- Ilya Kapovich: On residual properties of word hyperbolic groups
- 2:10---2:30 Short talks 12
- 2:40---3:00 Short talks 13