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Combinatorial and Geometric Group Theory
May 5-10, 2006
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN, USA

Organizers
Goulnara Arzhantseva, Mike Mihalik, Denis Osin, Mark Sapir, Efim Zelmanov

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Abstracts

Combinatorics

Goulnara N. Arzhantseva Relatively hyperbolic groups are C*-simple.
Varujan Atabekian On embeddings of free Burnside groups of odd exponent n ≥ 1003
Gilbert Baumslag Residually torsion-free-nilpotent groups
Igor Belegradek Rips construction and Kazhdan property (T)
Collin Bleak A universal, minimal, non-solvable subgroup of PLo(I) and of R. Thompson's Group F
Volker Diekert Complexity and decidability results for some free inverse monoids
Daniel Farley The Action of Thompson's Group on a CAT(0) Boundary
Stefan Forcey Categorified Associahedra and alternate blueprints for a free group element.
Victor Guba Metric and growth properties of R.Thompson's group F
Sergei Ivanov On balanced presentations of the trivial group
Arye Juhasz Certain quotients of HNN-extensions which are HNN-extensions.
Ilya Kazachkov Orthogonal systems in graphs and free partially commutative groups
Olga Kharlampovich Isomorphism and other algorithmic problems for fully residually free groups
Olga Macedonska Olshanskii method and positive laws in groups
Jason Manning Combinatorial horoballs, quasi-geodesic bicombings, and relative hyperbolicity
Luda Markus-Epstein Algorithmic problems in amalgams of finite groups
Alexei Miasnikov On elementary theories of free groups
Vahagn H. Mikaelian Continuum varieties of groups and verbal embeddings of groups
Ashot Minasyan On the engulfing property for word hyperbolic groups
Alexey Muranov Infinite simple groups of large commutator width
Alexander Olshanskii Van Kampen diagrams, machines, and asymptotic behavior of groups
Denis Osin Embedding theorems for countable groups and relative hyperbolicity
Nikolay Romanovskiy Free product decompositions in images of certain free products of groups
Lucas Sabalka On rigidity and the isomorphism problem for four strand tree braid groups
Denis Serbin Groups with regular free length functions in Z^n
Lev Shneerson On the growth in semigroup varieties
Vladimir Shpilrain Translation equivalence in free groups
Dmitriy Sonkin Uniform Kazhdan Groups
Zoran Sunic Hanoi Towers group as iterated monodromy group
Daniel Wise Special Cube Complexes
Roland Zarzycki Limits of Thompson's group F

Geometry

Angela Barnhill Global fixed points for actions on CAT(0) spaces
Jason Behrstock Thick metric spaces, relative hyperbolicity, and quasi-isometric rigidity.
Lewis Bowen A generalization of the prime geodesic theorem to counting conjugacy classes of free subgroups.
Nikolay Brodskiy Hurewicz Theorem for Nagata-Assouad dimension
Kai-Uwe Bux The Dimension of the Torelli Group for Out(F_n)
Ruth Charney Toward Outer Space for Right Angled Artin Groups
Maciej Czarnecki Boundary of foliations
Peter John Davidson Second order Dehn functions of Pride Groups
Karel Dekimpe Free actions of elementary abelian groups on tori.
Alexander Dranishnikov Embedding of groups into the product of binary trees
Max Forester High dimensional filling invariants of groups
Koji Fujiwara The asymptotic dimension of a curve graph is finite
Dan Guralnik Coarse decompositions for boundaries of cubulated CAT(0) spaces
Jose Higes Nagata-Assouad dimension via Lipschitz extensions
Michael Kapovich Generalized triangle inequalities and their applications
Rena Levitt Biautomaticity and Nonpositively Curved Piecewise Euclidean Complexes
Alex Lubotzky Finite groups and hyperbolic manifolds
Sergey Maksymenko Path-components of Morse mappings spaces of surfaces
Igor Mineyev Relative hyperbolicity and bounded cohomology
Atish Mitra Dimension zero at all scales
Nicolas Monod Splitting and CAT(0) superrigidity for lattices in products
Graham Niblo Obstructions to splitting
Panos Papasoglu Cut points and splittings of CAT(0) groups
Alexandra Pettet Finiteness properties for the kernel of the pure motion group of n unlinked loops
Tim Riley Geometric notions of space complexity for the word problem
Mark Sapir Groups acting on tree-graded spaces
Karen Vogtmann The ephemeral Morita classes
Shmuel Weinberger Spaces of Translations
Xiangdong Xie Uniform spaces and Gromov hyperbolicity
Robert Young Scaled relators and Dehn functions for nilpotent groups

Algebra

V. A. Artamonov Actions of pointed Hopf algebras on quantum torus
Yuri Bahturin Gradings by Groups on Classical Simple Algebras
Alexander Borisov Periodic points of self-maps of algebraic varieties and their applications to group theory.
Yves de Cornulier Strongly bounded groups
Galina Deryabina Multiplicative groups of Engel associative algebras
Mikhail Ershov Golod-Shafarevich groups with property (T) and Kac-Moody groups
Alexander Fel'shtyn Twisted Burnside-Frobenius theorem for discrete groups
Rostislav Grigorchuk Hanoi Tower Groups and Schreier Graphs
Anton Klyachko One-relator relative presentations
Alexei Krasilnikov Bigroups and a Limit Variety of Groups
Leonid Kurdachenko On some infinite demensional linear groups
Yuri Kuzmin Homology identities of nilpotent groups have the finite basis property.
Namhee Kwon On descriptions of canonical left cells in extended affine Weyl groups
Yuriy Leonov Growth of self-similar groups
Artem Lopatin SO(n)-invariants of several matrices and quivers
Alex Lubotzky Linear representations of the automorphism group of a free group
Keivan Mallahi-Karai Kazhdan constant for automorphisms of nilpotent groups
John Meakin From idempotent-generated semigroups to 2-complexes
Michael Mihalik Decompositions of Coxeter groups over minimal splittings
Bernhard Mühlherr Simply connected subsets of buildings
Volodymyr Nekrashevych A minimal Cantor set in the space of 3-generated groups
Boris Plotkin Some Tarskii’s-type problems and logical invariants of algebras
Eugene Plotkin How to define the Burnside-type problems for solvability property of groups and Lie algebras
John Ratcliffe Matching theorems for Coxeter systems of a finitely generated Coxeter group
Vladimir Remeslennikov Pro-p groups with non-isomorphic discrete and continuous cohomology groups
Paul E. Schupp Random Quotients of the Modular Group are Rigid
Benjamin Steinberg Algebraic combinatorics, semigroup representations and random walks on hyperplane chambers after Ken Brown
Vitaliy Sushchanskyy Automorphism groups of trees and Sylow p-subgroups of finitary symmetric groups
Guo Wenbin Sylow Objects in Finite Groups and the Factorization of Formations
Efim Zelmanov Some open problems in Ring Theory


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