Organizer:
Peter N. Wong (pwong@bates.edu)
Schedule:
Monday, Jan. 9
9:30-10:15
Nic Koban,
UMaine-Farmington
The
sigma invariants of free-by-free abelian groups
10:15-10:30 Coffee
break
10:30-11:15
Dessislava Kochloukova, UNICAMP Brazil
Fixed
points of automorphisms of generalized Thompson’s groups
11:30-12:15
Zoran Sunic, Texas A & M U.
Virtual
endomorphisms and self-similar groups
12:15
– 1:45 LUNCH
1:45-2:30
Scott Taylor, Colby College
Recent
progress on the cabling conjecture
2:45-3:30
Dirk Schuetz,
Durham U., U.K.
Configuration
spaces of closed linkages
3:30-4:00
Coffee
break
4:00-4:45
Jen Taback, Bowdoin College
Metric
properties of Diestel-Leader groups
Tuesday, Jan. 10
9:30-10:15
Alex Suciu,
Northeastern U.
Sigma
invariants of hyperplane arrangements
10:30-11:15
Keith Jones, Trinity College
∑
for actions on trees for semi-direct products (some
examples)
Rooms 207 and
209, Hathorn Hall
Sponsored
by the Mellon Foundation