Second Barcelona Weekend in Group Theory
May 4th-5th, 2007
Friday May 4th, CRM Auditorium
- 15:00 Vincent Guirardel (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)
Actions of finitely generated groups on R-trees
- 16:15 Ángel del Río (Universidad de Murcia)
Group algebras of Kleinian type, groups of units and free-by-free groups
- 17:30 Martin Bridson (Imperial College, London)
The growth of
free-group automorphisms
Saturday May 5th, FME Aula S01, Edifici U, UPC Campus Sud
- 10:00 Luis Paris (Université de Bourgogne, Dijon)
Residually p properties of outer automorphism groups of free groups and
surface groups
- 11:15 Tom Brady (Dublin City University)
The number of facets of the generalised associahedron
- 12:30 John Guaschi (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)
Series and subgroups of the sphere braid groups
This event is sponsored by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya