EPSRC Workshop 2016 "Geometry and Computation on Groups and Complexes"

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All long talks are 50 minutes followed by 10 minutes for questions. They take place in LT1,HERB.
Tea/Coffee breaks will be in Foyer HERB.
The Reception takes place in Foyer HERB.
Conference Dinner will take place in the Penthouse HERB.

Monday, 6 June

08.30 - 09.30: Registration (Foyer HERSCHEL building)
09.30 - 10.30: A. Valette, "Expanders and box spaces"
10.30 - 11.00: Tea/Coffee
11.00 - 12.00: A. Khukhro, "Geometry of finite quotients of groups"
12.00 - 12.10: Break
12.10 - 13.10: S. Hermiller, "Trees, flow functions, and algorithms in groups"
13.10 - 14.30: Lunch and Registration (Foyer HERB)
14.30 - 15.30: Sh. Liu, "Higher order Buser inequalities for the graph connection Laplacian"
15.30 - 16.00: Tea/Coffee
16.00 - 17.00: L. Ciobanu, "On conjugacy growth in groups"
17.00 - 17.15: Break
17.15 - 18.15: V. Shpilrain, "Mysteries of 2×2 matrices"
18.15 -: Reception (Foyer HERB)

Tuesday, 7 June

09.00 - 10.00: J. Brodzki, "Amenable actions of locally compact second countable groups"
10.00 - 10.20: Tea/Coffee
10.20 - 11.20: J. Jost, "On the curvature of graphs"
11.20 - 11.30: Break
11.30 - 12.30: A.Yu. Olshanskii, "On the growth of subgroups in finitely generated groups"
12.30 - 13.30: Lunch (Foyer HERB)
13.30 - 14.30: A. Iozzi, "Irreducible lattices and bounded cohomology"
14.30 - 15.00: Tea/Coffee
15.00 - 16.00: L. Bartholdi, "Decision problems in self-similar groups"
16.00 - 19.00: Poster Session (HERB 3.19); Discussions in separate rooms (HERB TR1,3,4)
19.00 -: Conference Dinner (Penthouse)

Wednesday, 8 June

09.00 - 09.40: R. Kangaslampi, "Hyperbolic triangular buildings and periodic apartments"
09.40 - 09.50: Break
09.50 - 10.30: G. Williams, "Fibonacci-type groups and 3-manifolds"
10.30 - 11.00: Tea/Coffee
11.00 - 11.30: N. Radu, "A locally non-Desarguesian Ã₂-building admitting a uniform lattice"
11.30 - 11.40: Break
11.40 - 12.10: N. Runganapirom, "Quaternionic lattice of rank 2 over characteristic 2 with small quotient square complex"
12.30 -: Free afternoon / Excursion to Beamish Museum

Thursday, 9 June

09.00 - 10.00: F. Chouraqui, "Knuth-Bendix algorithm and the conjugacy problems in monoids"
10.00 - 10.20: Tea/Coffee
10.20 - 11.20: M. Farber, "Topology of large random spaces"
11.20 - 11.30: Break
11.30 - 12.30: T. Nagnibeda, "Subgroups in branch groups"
12.30 - 13.30: Lunch (Foyer HERB)
13.30 - 14.30: D. Witte Morris, "Horospherical limit points of locally symmetric spaces"
14.30 - 14.40: Break
14.40 - 15.40: N. Boston, "Arboreal Galois Representations"
15.40 - 16.10: Tea/Coffee
16.10 - 17.10: I. Bumagin, "Makanin-Razborov diagrams over relatively hyperbolic groups"
17.10 - 17.20: Break
17.20 - 18.20: M. Sapir, "Subgroups of R. Thompson group F"

Friday, 10 June

09.00 - 10.00: D. Holt, "A new algorithmic approach to proving that groups are hyperbolic"
10.00 - 10.20: Tea/Coffee
10.20 - 11.20: D. Cartwright, "Some lattice subgroups of PU(2,1)"
11.20 - 11.30: Break
11.30 - 12.30: C. Lange, "Cayley graphs of finite Coxeter groups, Colin de Verdiere matrices and convex polytopes"
12.30 End of Workshop