General page of the First Joint Meeting AMS/RSME
Wednesday 18/6:
| 15:30-15:50 | Luis Paris (Université Bourgogne) |
| Representations of the braid group by automorphisms of groups | |
| 16:00-16:20 | Juan González-Meneses (Universidad Sevilla) |
| Braids and Nielsen-Thurston theory | |
| 16:30-16:50 | Oleg Bogopolski (Inst. of Math., Novosibirsk) |
| An analogue of a Magnus' theorem for surface groups and some other one-relator groups | |
| 17:30-17:50 | Ilya Kapovich (University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign) |
| Generic properties of the Whitehead Algorithm, of stabilizers in $Aut(F_k)$ and of one-relator groups | |
| 18:00-18:20 | Ted Turner (University at Albany) |
| Shift automorphisms of free groups | |
| 18:30-18:50 | Christophe Pittet (Université Toulouse) |
| Amenability and Random Walks |
Thursday 19/6:
| 11:30-12:20 | Mladen Bestvina (University of Utah) |
| Measured laminations and equations over free groups | |
| 12:30-12:50 | Noel Brady (University of Oklahoma) |
| Small cancellation and non-positive curvature | |
| 13:00-13:20 | Jon McCammond (University of California - Santa Barbara) |
| Existence of CAT(0) structures for finite type Artin groups |
| 15:30-15:50 | Susan Hermiller (University of Nebraska – Lincoln) |
| Minimal almost convexity | |
| 16:00-16:20 | Sean Cleary (City College of New York) |
| Thompson's group F is not almost convex | |
| 16:30-16:50 | Vladimir Shpilrain (City College of New York) |
| Counting elements in automorphic orbits |
| 17:30-18:20 | Gilbert Levitt (Université Toulouse) |
| Automorphisms of canonical splittings |
Friday 20/6:
| 10:00-10:20 | Olga Kharlampovich (McGill University) |
| Algorithms for fully residually free groups | |
| 10:30-10:50 | Igor Mineyev (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) |
| Geodesic flows, hyperbolic groups and so on |
| 11:30-12:20 | Steve Gersten (University of Utah) |
| Geometry of the Word Problem: Space and Time as Geometric Notions | |
| 12:30-12:50 | Patrick Bahls (Vanderbilt University) |
| Strong rigidity in even Coxeter groups | |
| 13:00-13:20 | Armando Martino (CRM Barcelona) |
| Examples of groups acting freely on non-archimedean trees |
Saturday 21/6:
| 9:30-9:50 | Richard Weidmann (Ruhr-U.-Bochum) |
| Foldings and the rank problem of Fuchsian groups | |
| 10:00-10:20 | John Meakin (University of Nebraska - Lincoln) |
| The prefix membership problem for one-relator groups | |
| 10:30-10:50 | Manuel Cárdenas (Universidad Sevilla) |
| Properly 3-realizable groups |
In boldface the main (50-minute) speakers
This conference is sponsored
by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.