Fixed Point Theory and Related Topics

Bates College, Lewiston, ME

April 25-26, 2006

 

Organizer:

Peter Wong (pwong@bates.edu), Bates College
Jennifer Taback (jtaback@bowdoin.edu), Bowdoin College

 

Objectives:

This is a follow-up of the Special Session on geometric methods in group theory and topology at the AMS Meeting at Durham, NH. The main objective is to organize a series of talks by a small group of mathematicians working on topological fixed point theory and geometric group theory. The talks are about 45-50 minutes long so that more details can be presented. In addition, problem sessions will be scheduled. Special attention will be given to the following topics.

• Reidemeister trace;
• Twisted conjugacy classes;
• Coincidence theory;
• Gottlieb groups.

 

Anticipated Participants:

• Robin Brooks, Bates College
• Marek Golasin´ski, Nicolaus Copernicus University,Torun, Poland
• Daciberg Gonçalves, IME, University of Sao Paolo, Brazil
• Armando Martino, UPC, Barcelona, Spain
• Chris Staecker, Messiah College
• Jennifer Taback, Bowdoin College
• Daniel Vendruscolo, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil
• Julia Weber, Max Planck Institute-Bonn, Germany

 

 

Schedule of Talks:

Tuesday
8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast  
9:00-9:50 Chris Staecker (Nilpotent quotients and Reidemeister trace)
10:00-10:50 Armando Martino (Twisted conjugacy in free groups)
11:00-12:15 Problem Session
12:15-1:40 Lunch
1:40-2:30 Daciberg Gonçalves (Coincidence theory in positive codimension)
2:30-3:00 Coffee Break
3:00-4:15 Problem Session
5:45-6:30 Reception
6:30-8:00 Dinner



Wednesday
8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast  
9:00-9:50 Julia Weber (The universal functorial equivariant Lefschetz invariant: details and applications)
10:00-10:50 Marek Golasin´ski (Gottlieb, Fox, and Rhodes groups: non-equivariant and equivariant cases)
11:00-12:15 Problem Session
12:15-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:00 Daniel Vendruscolo (Jiang type results)
2:00-2:30 Robin Brooks (Nielsen root theory)
2:30-3:00 Coffee Break
3:00-4:15 Problem Session



 

 




Pictures (taken by J. Weber)


 

Armando, Daniel, Marek, Daciberg		Chris Staecker		Daniel Vendruscolo

 

Dinner at Bates		Group picture in front of Hathorn Hall		Julia Weber

 

Marek Golasin´ski		Robin Brooks		Lunch at Commons - Bates College

 

Marek Golasin´ski and Daciberg Gonçalves		Mackerel Cove		Picking mussels at Mackerel Cove

 

"Clams First ..." (Robin's House in Orrs Island)		"Then Lobsters ..."