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International Conference on Non-Positive Curvature in Group Theory, Topology, and Geometry
May 28-31, 1998
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN, USA

Organizers
B. Hughes, M. Mihalik, E. Prassidis, J. Ratcliffe, K. Ruane, M. Sapir, E. Schechter

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Abstracts

Hyman Bass A super-rigid non-lattice
Igor Belegradek Counting negatively curved manifolds
Nadia Benakli Construction of the JSJ decomposition for a family of hyperbolic groups
Mladen Bestvina Artin groups of finite type
Debra L. Boutin Criteria for Finite Centralizers
Noel Brady A free by cyclic group which is not biautomatic
Stephen Brick On the Dehn function of distorted amalgamations
Paul Brown Diagrammatically regular polygons of finite groups and surface subgroups
José Burillo Subgroups of Thompson's group F
Kai-Uwe Bux Finiteness properties of solvable S-arithmetic groups over function fields
James Cannon Planar subdivision rules-fundamental questions
Sean Cleary Variations of Thompson's Group F and Subdivisions
Gregory R. Conner Fundamental groups of locally complicated spaces
Michael Davis L2-homology of Coxeter groups and applications
David Epstein A practical method for finding the hyperbolic constant of a group
Benson Farb Nonlinear superrigidity for topologists and groups acting on manifoldsmanifolds
Dan Farley On isometry groups of certain CAT(0) spaces
Steven Ferry Characteristic classes of very singular spaces
Ross Geoghegan Varying Group Actions on CAT(0) Spaces
Boris Goldfarb Proper homotopy theory of large spaces and isomorphism conjectures
Craig Guilbault Universal Covers of Aspherical Manifolds with Geometric Fundamental Groups
Andre Haefliger Developability and nonpositive curvature
Susan Hermiller Tame combings and almost convexity for groups
Dubravko Ivanšić Finite-volume hyperbolic 4-manifolds sharing a fundamental polyhedron
Michael Kapovich On fundamental groups of complex hyperbolic surfaces
T. Mark Kellum Deformaing Riemannian foliations and applications
Bruce Kleiner Hyperbolic groups with 1-dimensional boundary, and 3-dimensional Poincare duality groups
Tadeusz Kozniewski Projective criteria and constructions of acyclic \Gamma complexes
Francisco F. Lasheras On the second cohomology of G with ZG-coefficients
Natasa Macura Detour functions and quasi-isometries
Saburo Matsumoto Subgroup Separability and Incompressible Immersions
Jon McCammond Coherent groups and the perimeter of 2-complexes
John Meier Improper actions and simple connectivity at infinity
Igor V. Mineyev Higher dimensional isoperimetric inequalities in hyperboic groups
Gábor Moussong CAT(1) metrics on spheres
Aleksandar Poleksic \delta-quasiconvex groups
John G. Ratcliffe Gravitation Instantons of Constant Curvature
Mark Sapir Residually finite hyperbolic groups and dynamics of polynomial maps over Zp
Viktor Schroeder Geodesics avoiding open subsets in surfaces of negative curvature
Richard Scott Nonpositive curvature of complements of real subspace arrangements
Melanie Stein Exceptional Seifert group actions on R
Thomas Stiadle How to use Haefliger's complexes of groups to prove Novikov Conjectures
Eric Swencon CAT(0) Groups and boundary cut points
Jennifer Taback The Large Scale Geometry of PSL2 (Z[1/p])
Karen Vogtmann Symmetries of Outer Space
Daniel Wise Coherent groups and the perimeter of 2-complexes


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