The talks will be given in Lecture Theatre 1 on the ground floor of the Herschel Building (no. 17 on the campus map, close to the Haymarket).

The workshop will cover a wide range of research directions in the general areas of geometric group theory and simplicial and polyhedral complexes. Of interest are geometric, topological and spectral aspects.

The aim of the workshop is to bring researchers with different research backgrounds together and to provide ample opportunities to discuss recent developments as well as challenging open questions. The venue should also be inspirational for young researchers entering into this field.

Speakers include:

Laurent Bartholdi (Göttingen) Nigel Boston (Wisconsin-Madison) Jacek Brodzki (Southampton) Inna Bumagin (Carleton) Donald I. Cartwright (Sydney) Fabienne Chouraqui (Haifa) Laura Ciobanu (Neuchatel) Michael Farber (Queen Mary) Susan Hermiller (Nebraska) Derek Holt (Warwick) Alessandra Iozzi (ETH Zürich) Jürgen Jost (MPI and Uni Leipzig) Riikka Kangaslampi (Aalto University)

Ana Khukhro (Neuchatel) Carsten Lange (TU Munich) Shiping Liu (Durham) Alexander Ol'shanskii (Vanderbilt) Nicolas Radu (Universite Catholique de Louvain) Nithi Rungtanapirom (Frankfurt) Mark Sapir (Vanderbilt) Tatiana Smirnova-Nagnibeda (Geneva) Vladimir Shpilrain (CUNY, New York) Alain Valette (Neuchatel) Gerald Williams (Essex) Dave Witte Morris (Lethbridge)

PhD students and researchers at all stages of their career are welcome to participate.