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Host: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Campus Kortrijk
Homepage: http://www.kulak.ac.be/workshop/
Email: workshop@kulak.ac.be
Organizers: * Karel Dekimpe * Yves Félix * Paul Igodt * Wim Malfait
Description:
The aim of this meeting is to report on and to discuss recent developments and problems in the field.
Recent developments concerning all interactionsbetween group theory and geometry are the subject of this workshop.
A non-exhaustive list of possible topics include: * Geometric group theory * Group actions on manifolds * Crystallographic groups and all possible generalizations (affine, polynomial, projective crystallographic groups, almost-crystallographic groups) * Discrete subgroups of Lie groups * Graphs of groups Also applications (in and beyond the fields mentioned) belong to the scope of the workshop.
Speakers: * Y. Benoist (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris), Projective deformations of hyperbolic structures. * B. Farb (University of Chicago), Algebraic properties of groups of diffeomorphisms. * D. Fried (Boston University), Affine flows on affine manifolds. * R. Grigorchuk (Steklov Institute of Mathematics, Moscow), Algorithmic problems and L-presentations of branch groups. * F. Labourie (Université Paris, Orsay), Surface groups and SL(n,R). * G. Soifer (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan), Affine crystallographic groups leaving a quadratic form of signature (n,2) invariant.
Date received: March 26, 2002
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