Aspects of hyperbolicity, convergence groups

3^rd week of Groups 007

Monday 19 February -> Friday 23 February

CIRM, Marseille, France

General Presentation:

This is the third week of a larger series of activities in February 2007 held at the CIRM in Marseille. This Groups 007 month of conferences is centered around the different aspects of Group Theory studied in Marseille:

Week 1	5 Feb -> 9 Feb	Random Walks on Groups
Week 2	12 Feb -> 16 Feb	Automorphisms of free groups, Outer Space, Teichmüller theory
Week 3	19 Feb -> 23 Feb	Aspects of hyperbolicity, convergence groups
Week 4	26 Feb -> 2 March	Combinatorial, algorithmic and cryptographic aspects of Group Theory

See the main page for this special month at http://www.latp.univ-mrs.fr/~hamish/Groups007/

Presentation of the week:

This week conference is aimed at bringing together specialists of different aspects of hyperbolicity for groups, with a special focus towards Cannon's conjecture.
The conference will take place at the CIRM, a math conference center located on the Luminy Campus of Marseille universities with all facilities. The conference center is at the edge of the wonderful Calanques de Marseille. Please see the CIRM website for all practical informations.

Main Speakers:

The following main speakers have accepted to give a minicourse.

Gérard Besson (Grenoble) and Gilles Courtois (Ecole Polytechnique), Margulis Lemma with no curvature and growth of groups
Marc Bourdon (Lille), Moduli and capacities in metric spaces, applications
Jim Cannon (Brigham Young U.), The subdivision complex at infinity, computations, and questions,
and Bill Floyd (Virginia Tech), Cannon's conjecture, finite subdivision rules, and rational maps
François Dahmani (Toulouse) and Daniel Groves (Caltech), The isomorphism problem for toral relatively hyperbolic groups
Pierre Pansu (Université Paris-Sud, Orsay), Embeddings of the Heisenberg group in L^p, following Cheeger and Kleiner

The other speakers are

Brian Bowditch (Southampton), Hyperbolic 3-manifolds and the curve complex
Cornelia Drutu (Lille), Relatively hyperbolic groups: geometry and quasi-isometric invariance Cancelled
Volodymyr Nekrashevych (Texas A&M), Contracting self-similar groups
Asli Yaman (CRM, Barcelona), Some aspects of convergence groups

Scientific Committee:

Michel Boileau (Toulouse)
Martin Bridson (Imperial College London)
Thomas Delzant (Strasbourg)

Local organizers:

Peter Haïssinsky (LATP, Université de Provence)
Jérôme Los (LATP, Université de Provence)

Schedule

which can also be downloaded.

Participants

Registration:

Administrative registration will be open from November, 1st, 2006 onward at the CIRM website. Before that you need to send a scientific registration to us via the pre-registration page . Please include which of the four weeks you wish to attend, a talk proposal (if any), and if you need any funding.

Funding:

A limited amount of support will be available for attending the conference. Priority will be given to young researchers and PhD. students. Please ask .

Last update Friday, February 16th, 2007
Created and updated by Peter Haïssinsky