Eighth Barcelona Weekend in Group Theory
April 26th and 27th, 2013
Friday April 26th, Aula A1, CRM, Bellaterra
- 15:30 Delaram Kahrobaei (CUNY, New York)
Public key exchange using semidirect product of (semi)groups.
- 16:45 Andrzej Zuk (Université Paris 7)
Random walks on symmetric groups.
- 18:00 Jon González (Universidad del País Vasco, Bilbao)
The orbit method.
Saturday April 27th, Aula 103, FME UPC, Pau Gargallo 5, Barcelona
- 10:00 Ana Khukhro (Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
Box spaces and coarse geometry.
- 11:15 Francesco Matucci (Université Paris-Sud 11)
Measuring finiteness in groups.
- 12:30 Ariadna Fossas (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
Stasheff's associahedra and Thompson's groups.
ABSTRACTS
This meeting is possible thanks to the support from:
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Centre de Recerca Matemàtica