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Host: University of Geneva
Homepage: http://mad.epfl.ch/apg/
Organizers: Goulnara N. Arzhantseva, Laurent Bartholdi, Alexander Yu. Ol'shanskii, Mark Sapir, and Efim Zelmanov
Description:
This conference, sponsored by the University of Geneva and the Swiss National Fund for Scientific Research is devoted to the study of asymptotic and probabilistic methods in group theory. It will explore groups from various aspects: combinatorial and algebraic (groups defined by generators and relations), topological (fundamental groups of low-dimensional topological spaces), geometric (groups given by their action on negatively curved spaces, or on Hilbert spaces). It aims to attract researchers worldwide, from all these areas.
The main topics for the workshop are:
Geometric invariants and asymptotic geometry of groups;
Geometric actions of groups, quasi-isometries;
Growth and isoperimetric functions on groups, distortion;
Spectra of graphs, random walks, languages, automata;
Probabilistic and random methods on finite and infinite groups;
The geometry of van Kampen diagrams.
Date received: October 26, 2004
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