Thursday 11 November

9:30 - 10:20   B. Bekka - Lattices with and without spectral gap

coffee break in Rector's Drawing Room

10:40 - 11:30 B. Remy - Quasi-isometry classes of twin building
 lattices
 

11:45 - 12:35 A. Vdovina - Buildings, expanders and Beauville structures


lunch

14 - 14:50    A. Pettet - Out(Fn) and its relatives 

coffee break in Rector's Drawing Room

15:20 - 16:10 M. Bridson - Maps between outer automorphism groups of free groups and mapping class groups




Friday 12 November


9:30 - 10:20  G. Levitt - McCool groups and stabilizers on the boundary of outer space

coffee break in Rector's Drawing Room

10:40 - 11:30 M. Lustig - Folding lines in Outer space determine the dual lamination of their limit $\R$-tree 
 

11:45 - 12:35 S. Rees - Artin groups: automatic structures and geodesics

lunch

14 - 14:50    A. Minasyan - Fixed subgroups of automorphisms of relatively hyperbolic groups

coffee break in Rector's Drawing Room

15:20 - 16:10 G. Niblo - Topological superrigidity
 

16:25 - 17:15 M. Lackenby - Open problems in knot theory


conference dinner in Harris Manchester college

 19:30 Drinks Reception in Old Bursary;

 20 dinner in Main Hall

 

Saturday 13 November


9:30 - 10:20  V. Chepoi- Constant approximation algorithms for embedding graph metrics into trees and outerplanar graphs

coffee break in Rector's Drawing Room

10:40 - 11:30 Y. Vaxes - Diameters, centers, and approximating trees of delta-hyperbolic geodesic spaces and graphs
 

11:45 - 12:35 R. Tessera - The Hilbert distortion of balls of the Heisenberg group

lunch

14.10 - 15    P. Pansu - Metric problems concerning nilpotent groups


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