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Durham Cathedral

London Mathematical Society Durham Symposium
Geometry and Cohomology in Group Theory
Friday 4th July - Monday 14th July 2003

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
19:00Dinner
Saturday 5th July
09:00-09:30J SwiatkowskiSimplicial nonpositive curvature I
10:00-10:45T JanuszkiewiczSimplicial nonpositive curvature II
10:50Coffee
11:20-12:10JS WilsonAspects of growth of groups
13:00Lunch
14:00-14:45L MosherQuasi-isometric rigidity, and the homology and dynamics of class groups II
15:30Tea
17:00-17:45TW MuellerCharacter Theory of Symmetric Groups, Subgroup Growth of Fuchsian Groups, and Random Walks
19:00Dinner
Wine Reception (immediately after Dinner)
Sunday 6th July
09:00-09:30J McCammondConstructing nonpositively curved spaces and groups I
10:00-10:45L MosherQuasi-isometric rigidity, and the homology of Mapping Class Groups I
10:50Coffee
11:20-12:20IL ChatterjiNew examples of groups with the Rapid Decay property
13:00Lunch
15:30Tea
16:00-17:00Z SelaDiophantine geometry over groups I
17:00-18:00AJ ValetteVanishing results for the first L2-Betti number
19:00Dinner
Monday 7th July
09:00-09:45L MosherQuasi-isometric rigidity, and the homology and dynamics of class groups III
10:00-11:00Z SelaDiophantine geometry over groups II
10:50Coffee
11:20-12:20K VogtmannForested graphs and Morita cycles in Outer space
13:00Lunch
15:30Tea
16:00-16:30J McCammondConstructing nonpositively curved spaces and groups II
17:00-17:50PA LinnellNoncommutative localization in group rings
19:00Dinner
Tuesday 8th July
09:00-09:30W LueckL2 invariants I: Basic introduction to L2-Betti numbers
10:00-10:45L MosherQuasi-isometric rigidity, and the homology and dynamics of class groups IV
10:50Coffee
11:20-12:20N Monod
13:00Lunch
14:00Conference Photograph
15:30Tea
16:00-17:00Z SelaDiophantine geometry over groups III
17:00-17:30R OliverLocal structure of finite groups and their classifying spaces I: on BG^p
19:00Dinner
Wednesday 9th July
Day trip to Robin Hood's Bay and Whitby
19:00Dinner
Thursday 10th July
09:00-09:30M BestvinaMeasured foliations and Diophantine geometry
10:00-10:30R OliverLocal structure of finite groups and their classifying spaces II: p-local finite groups
10:50Coffee
11:20-12:20I HambletonCoarse topology and group actions
13:00Lunch
14:30-15:30M FeighnDiophantine geometry over groups V
15:30Tea
16:00-16:30W LueckL2-invariants II: Further Results about L2-Betti numbers
17:00-18:00MV SapirDiagram groups of directed 2-complexes, spaces of positive paths, homology and homotopy
19:00Dinner
Friday 11th July
Chair: J Dymara
09:00-09:30R OliverLocal structure of finite groups and their classifying spaces III: the Martino-Priddy conjecture
10:00-10:30W LueckL2-invariants III: The generalized dimension function
10:50Coffee
11:20-12:20A AdemPeriodic Complexes and Action Groups I
13:00Lunch
14:30Cathedral Visit
16:30-17:00G MislinOn the Geoghegan conjecture
19:00Dinner
Saturday 12th July
09:00-09:30W LueckL2-invariants IV: Survey on further results and conjectures
10:00-10:30J McCammondConstructing nonpositively curved spaces and groups III
10:50Coffee
11:20-12:20H Reich
13:00Lunch
15:30Tea
16:00-17:00A AdemPeriodiv Complexes and Action Groups II
17:00-17:30BH BowditchThe hyperbolicity of the curve complex
19:00Wine reception followed by Conference Dinner
Sunday 13th July
09:00-09:30J McCammondConstructing nonpositively curved spaces and groups IV
10:00-10:50MR BurgerBounded cohomology and applications to group actions I
10:50Coffee
11:20-12:20A IozziBounded cohomology and applications to group actions II
13:00Lunch
15:30Tea
16:00-17:00A AdemPeriodic Complexes and Action Groups III
17:00-17:30R CharneyGarside structures and Artin groups
19:00Dinner
Monday 14th July
Departure after breakfast