Programme
All lectures take place in room CG93 (the Scarborough lecture theatre) in the Department of Mathematical Sciences on the Science Site. Coffee and Tea are served in CM105. Meals are taken at Grey College.
| Friday 4th July |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
| Saturday 5th July |
| 09:00-09:30 | J Swiatkowski | Simplicial nonpositive curvature I |
| 10:00-10:45 | T Januszkiewicz | Simplicial nonpositive curvature II |
| 10:50 | Coffee |
| 11:20-12:10 | JS Wilson | Aspects of growth of groups |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-14:45 | L Mosher | Quasi-isometric rigidity, and the homology and dynamics of class groups II |
| 15:30 | Tea |
| 17:00-17:45 | TW Mueller | Character Theory of Symmetric Groups, Subgroup Growth of Fuchsian Groups, and Random Walks |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
| Wine Reception (immediately after Dinner) |
| Sunday 6th July |
| 09:00-09:30 | J McCammond | Constructing nonpositively curved spaces and groups I |
| 10:00-10:45 | L Mosher | Quasi-isometric rigidity, and the homology of Mapping Class Groups I |
| 10:50 | Coffee |
| 11:20-12:20 | IL Chatterji | New examples of groups with the Rapid Decay property |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 15:30 | Tea |
| 16:00-17:00 | Z Sela | Diophantine geometry over groups I |
| 17:00-18:00 | AJ Valette | Vanishing results for the first L2-Betti number |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
| Monday 7th July |
| 09:00-09:45 | L Mosher | Quasi-isometric rigidity, and the homology and dynamics of class groups III |
| 10:00-11:00 | Z Sela | Diophantine geometry over groups II |
| 10:50 | Coffee |
| 11:20-12:20 | K Vogtmann | Forested graphs and Morita cycles in Outer space |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 15:30 | Tea |
| 16:00-16:30 | J McCammond | Constructing nonpositively curved spaces and groups II |
| 17:00-17:50 | PA Linnell | Noncommutative localization in group rings |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
| Tuesday 8th July |
| 09:00-09:30 | W Lueck | L2 invariants I: Basic introduction to L2-Betti numbers |
| 10:00-10:45 | L Mosher | Quasi-isometric rigidity, and the homology and dynamics of class groups IV |
| 10:50 | Coffee |
| 11:20-12:20 | N Monod | |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | Conference Photograph |
| 15:30 | Tea |
| 16:00-17:00 | Z Sela | Diophantine geometry over groups III |
| 17:00-17:30 | R Oliver | Local structure of finite groups and their classifying spaces I: on BG^p |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
| Wednesday 9th July |
| Day trip to Robin Hood's Bay and Whitby |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
| Thursday 10th July |
| 09:00-09:30 | M Bestvina | Measured foliations and Diophantine geometry |
| 10:00-10:30 | R Oliver | Local structure of finite groups and their
classifying spaces II: p-local finite groups |
| 10:50 | Coffee |
| 11:20-12:20 | I Hambleton | Coarse topology and group actions |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 14:30-15:30 | M Feighn | Diophantine geometry over groups V |
| 15:30 | Tea |
| 16:00-16:30 | W Lueck | L2-invariants II: Further Results about L2-Betti numbers |
| 17:00-18:00 | MV Sapir | Diagram groups of directed 2-complexes, spaces of positive paths, homology and homotopy |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
| Friday 11th July |
| Chair: J Dymara |
| 09:00-09:30 | R Oliver | Local structure of finite groups and their classifying spaces III: the Martino-Priddy conjecture |
| 10:00-10:30 | W Lueck | L2-invariants III: The generalized dimension function |
| 10:50 | Coffee |
| 11:20-12:20 | A Adem | Periodic Complexes and Action Groups I |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 14:30 | Cathedral Visit |
| 16:30-17:00 | G Mislin | On the Geoghegan conjecture |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
| Saturday 12th July |
| 09:00-09:30 | W Lueck | L2-invariants IV: Survey on further results and conjectures |
| 10:00-10:30 | J McCammond | Constructing nonpositively curved spaces and groups III |
| 10:50 | Coffee |
| 11:20-12:20 | H Reich | |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 15:30 | Tea |
| 16:00-17:00 | A Adem | Periodiv Complexes and Action Groups II |
| 17:00-17:30 | BH Bowditch | The hyperbolicity of the curve complex |
| 19:00 | Wine reception followed by Conference Dinner |
| Sunday 13th July |
| 09:00-09:30 | J McCammond | Constructing nonpositively curved spaces and groups IV |
| 10:00-10:50 | MR Burger | Bounded cohomology and applications to group actions I |
| 10:50 | Coffee |
| 11:20-12:20 | A Iozzi | Bounded cohomology and applications to group actions II |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 15:30 | Tea |
| 16:00-17:00 | A Adem | Periodic Complexes and Action Groups III |
| 17:00-17:30 | R Charney | Garside structures and Artin groups |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
| Monday 14th July |
| Departure after breakfast |
