GROUPS007 CIRM MARSEILLE
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A month of activities around themes in geometric group theory


 HOW TO GET TO THE CIRM     Computing facilities at the CIRM and file 2

Week 1 Random Walks on Groups
Monday 5 Feb - > Friday 9 Feb
contacts: pierre.mathieu@latp.univ-mrs.fr,vlada.limic@latp.univ-mrs.fr,christophe.pittet@latp.univ-mrs.fr

course: "Poisson Boundaries" by V. Kaimanovich (Bremen) and U. Bader (Chicago)

Main Speakers:

Ewa Damek (Wroclaw), Persi Diaconis (Stanford), Anna Erschler (Paris), Damien Gaboriau (Lyon), Nina Gantert (Muenster), Steve Lalley (Chicago), Nicolas Monod (Geneva), Laurent Saloff-Coste (Cornell), Balint Toth (Budapest), Balint Virag (Toronto)

Week 2 Outer Space and Teichmüller space
Monday 12 Feb - > Friday 16 Feb

where we celebrate Outer Space's 20th Birthday
contacts: martin.lustig@univ-cezanne.fr,arnaud.hilion@univ-cezanne.fr,pascal.hubert@univ-cezanne.fr

Martin Bridson (Imperial), Marc Culler (UIChicago), A. Eskin (Chicago), Benson Farb (Chicago), Ursula Hamenstädt (Bonn), Yair Minsky (Yale). Karen Vogtmann (Cornell)

And also: Pierre Arnoux (IML), Laurent Bartholdi (EPSL), Brian Bowditch (Southampton), Jeff Brock,  Cornelia Drutu (Lille), Stephano Francaviglia,  Vincent Guirardel (Toulouse), John Hubbard (LATP), Ilya Kapovich (Urbana), Christopher Leininger (Urbana),  Gilbert Levitt (Caen), Martin Moeller, Volodymyr Nekrashevych (Texas A&M), Saul Schleimer (Rutgers), Barak Weiss, Anton Zorich (Rennes)

Week 3   Aspects of  hyperbolicity,  convergence groups, etc.
Monday 19 Feb - > Friday 23 Feb
contacts: peter.haissinsky@latp.univ-mrs.fr,jerome.los@latp.univ-mrs.fr

Minicourses by:

Gérard Besson (Grenoble), Marc Bourdon (Lille), Jim Cannon (Brigham Young U.), Gilles Courtois (Ecole Polytechnique), François Dahmani (Toulouse), Bill Floyd (Virginia Tech), Daniel Groves (Caltech), Pierre Pansu (Orsay).

And also: Brian Bowditch (Southampton), Cornelia Drutu (Lille), Volodymyr Nekrashevych (Texas A&M), Asli Yaman (Barcelona) 

This week is partially supported by the A.N.R. "Autour de la conjecture de Cannon" (coordinateur Hervé Pajot, U.Grenoble)

Week 4: Combinatorial, algorithmic and cryptographic aspects
Monday 26 Feb. -> Friday 2 March
contacts: hamish.short@latp.univ-mrs.fr, thierry.coulbois@latp.univ-mrs.fr

Minicourses by:

David Bessis (ENS Paris), Jon McCammond (UCSB), Dens Osin (CUNY), Vladimir Shpilrain (CUNY)