Sixth Barcelona Weekend in Group Theory
April 15th and 16th, 2011
Friday April 15th, Aula A1, CRM, Bellaterra
- 15:30 Olga Kharlampovich (McGill University, Montreal, Canada)
Groups acting freely on Lambda trees.
- 16:45 Jérôme Los (CNRS and Université d'Aix-Marseille I, Marseille, France)
Volume entropy for geometric presentations of surface groups via a Markov map.
- 18:00 Gustavo Adolfo Fernández Alcober (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Bilbao, Spain)
Some word problems in group theory.
Saturday April 16th, Aula S01, FME UPC, Pau Gargallo 5, Barcelona
- 10:00 Collin Bleak (University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK)
Automorphisms of V_n.
- 11:15 Pedro Silva (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
Omnipresent automata.
- 12:30 Biel Cardona (Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain)
Some group-theoretical problems in computational biology.
This meeting is possible thanks to the support from:
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Centre de Recerca Matemàtica