Workshop “Group Actions and Dynamics”

October 4-8, 2010

Program

 

Monday, October 4, 2010

09:00 - 09:30
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)

Session - Mini-courses
Meeting room : 6214

09:30 - 10:20
Mladen Bestvina
(University of Utah)
Topology and geometry of outer space - I
Abstract

Slides
10:30 - 10:50
Coffee break
Room 6245
10:50 - 11:40
Volodymyr Nekrashevych
(Texas A&M University)
Self-similar and branch groups - I
Abstract

Slides


Meeting room : 6214

11:50 - 12:40
François Dahmani
(Université de Grenoble)
Subgroups of interval exchange transformations
Abstract

12:50 - 14:30
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:30 - 15:20
Rostislav Grigorchuk
(Texas A&M University)
Free vs non free actions on a boundary of a rooted tree and dynamics related to Schreier graphs
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room 6245
16:00 - 16:50
Olga Kharlampovich
(McGill University)
Groups acting on Lambda-trees
Abstract

Slides

17:00
Reception
Room 6245

 

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245

Session - Mini-courses
Meeting room : 6214

09:30 - 10:20
Mladen Bestvina
(University of Utah)
Topology and geometry of outer space - II
Abstract

Slides
10:30 - 10:50
Coffee break
Room 6245
10:50 - 11:40
Volodymyr Nekrashevych
(Texas A&M University)
Self-similar and branch groups - II
Abstract

Slides


Meeting room : 6214

11:50 - 12:40
Montserrat Casals-Ruiz (Vanderbilt University)
Ilya Kazachkov (Vanderbilt University)
TBA

12:50 - 14:30
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:30 - 15:20
Pedro V. Silva
(Universidade do Porto)
Fixed points of endomorphisms over special confluent rewriting systems
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room 6245
16:00 - 16:50
Indira Lara Chatterji
(Université d'Orléans, UFR Sciences)
Groups acting on median spaces
Abstract

 

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245

Session - Mini-courses
Meeting room : 6214

09:30 - 10:20
Mladen Bestvina
(University of Utah)
Topology and geometry of outer space - III
Abstract

Slides
10:30 - 10:50
Coffee break
Room 6245
10:50 - 11:40
Volodymyr Nekrashevych
(Texas A&M University)
Self-similar and branch groups- III
Abstract

Slides
11:50 - 12:40
Denis Osin
(Vanderbilt University)
Beyond relative hyperbolicity - I
Abstract

12:50 - 14:30
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:30 - 15:20
Tatiana Smirnova-Nagnibeda
(Université de Genève)
Asymptotical properties of group actions on rooted trees
Abstract

Slides
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room 6245
16:00 - 16:50
Vladimir Trofimov
(UB Russian Academy of Sciences)
Geometry and dynamics related with vertex-transitive groups of automorphisms of graphs
Abstract

 

Thursday, October 7, 2010

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245

Session - Mini-course
Meeting room : 6214

09:30 - 10:20
Denis Osin
(Vanderbilt University)
Beyond relative hyperbolicity - II
Abstract

10:30 - 10:50
Coffee break
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

10:50 - 11:40
Lisa J. Carbone
(Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)
Discrete symmetries of infinite dimensional Lie groups
Abstract
11:50 - 12:40
Tullia Dymarz
(Yale University)
Bilipschitz equivalence is not equivalent to quasi-isometric equivalence for finitely generated groups
Abstract

12:50 - 14:30
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

14:30 - 15:20
Vadim Kaimanovich
(Université d'Ottawa)
Hopf decomposition and horospheric limit sets
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room 6245
16:00 - 16:50
Zoran Šunic
(Texas A&M University)
TBA

 

Friday, October 8, 2010

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245

Session - Mini-course
Meeting room : 6214

09:30 - 10:20
Denis Osin
(Vanderbilt University)
Beyond relative hyperbolicity - III
Abstract

10:30 - 10:50
Coffee break
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

10:50 - 11:40
Denis E. Serbin
(Stevens Institute of Technology)
Boundaries of $Z^n$-free groups
Abstract

11:50
Closure of the workshop