Geometric and Asymptotic Group Theory with Applications
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Program

Thursday, August 31st

(Main Room)

08:30 - 09:30Registration
09:30 - 10:00Opening session
10:00 - 11:00Josep Burillo, "Orderings in braided Thompson's groups"
11:00 - 11:30Coffee break
11:30 - 12:30Martin Lustig, "R-trees - currents - laminations: a delicate relationship"
12:30 - 13:00Gilbert Levitt, "Growth rates for automorphisms of free groups"
13:00 - 13:30Armando Martino, "Putting a metric on Outer Space"

15:30 - 16:00Sean Cleary, "Metric properties of braided Thompson's groups"
16:00 - 16:30Sarah Rees, Group geodesics: regularity, star-freedom and local testability"
16:30 - 17:00Coffee break
17:00 - 17:30Tim Riley, "Diameter versus filling length in metric discs and in groups"

19:00 - 20:00Reception at Manresa City Hall



Friday, September 1st

(Main Room)

9:00 - 10:00Mark Sapir, "Cut points in asymptotic cones of groups"
10:00 - 11:00Paul Schupp, "Mostow-type rigidity as a property of randomness"
11:00 - 11:30Photo + Coffee break
11:30 - 12:00Vladimir Shpilrain, "The word problem: new challenges"
12:00 - 12:30Patrick Dehornoy, "Algorithms for Garside groups"
12:30 - 13:00Luis Paris, "Direct decompositions of Coxeter groups"
13:00 - 13:30Anton Klyachko, "One-relator relative presentations"

16:00 - 22:30
Trip to Montserrat
Concert



Saturday, September 2nd

(Main Room)

9:00 - 10:00Oleg Bogopolski, "On a Magnus property for some one-relator groups"
10:00 - 11:00Brian Bowditch, "The classification of Kleinian groups"
11:00 - 11:30Coffee break
11:30 - 12:00Alain Valette, "Proper isometric actions on Banach spaces"
12:00 - 12:30Gerhard Rosenberger, "On the surface group conjecture"
12:30 - 13:00Luis Ribes, "On quasifree profinite groups"
13:00 - 13:30Denis Osin, "Large groups and their periodic quotients"

Contributed talks

(Main Room, Room S1, Room S2)

15:20 - 15:40
MRFrançois Dahmani, "The isomorphism problem for some relatively hyperbolic groups"
S1Elena Bunina, "Elementary equivalence of Chevalley groups"
S2Luda Markus-Epstein, "Reading Kurosh decomposition via subgroup graphs"
15:40 - 16:00
MRFrançois Gautero, "Combination theorem for relatively hyperbolic groups"
S1Marius Buliga, "Dilatation structures"
S2Ki Hyoung Ko, "Weighted decompositions of generic braids"
16:00 - 16:20
MRClaas Roever, "Groups as syntactic monoids"
S1Alexey Muranov, "Finitely generated infinite simple groups of infinite commutator width"
S2Daniele Otera, "Some refinements of the (simple) connectivity at infinity"
16:20 - 16:40
MRAshot Minasyan, "The SQ-universality and residual properties of relatively hyperbolic groups"
S1Ahmad Erfanian, "Probability of generating simple groups PSp(2m,q)"
S2Koji Fujiwara, "Asymptotic dimension of curve graphs"
16:40 - 17:00Coffee break
17:00 - 17:20
MRDonghi Lee, "An algorithm that decides translation equivalence"
S1Francesco Russo, "Groups with soluble minimax classes of conjugate subgroups"
S2Vladimir Kisil, "Elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic invariants of cycles"
17:20 - 17:40
MRNicholas Touikan, "Two variable equations over free groups"
S1Yuriy Leonov, "Self-similar groups of intermediate growth"
S2Uri Weiss, "On biautomaticity of non-homogenous small-cancellation groups"
17:40 - 18:00
MRIlya Kazachkov, "Orthogonality and divisibility theories for free partially commutative groups"
S1Sergey Zyubin, "Groups acting transitively on a projective line"
S2Laura Ciobanu, "On fixed subgroups in free groups"


Sunday, September 3rd

(Main Room)

9:00 - 10:00Goulnara Arjantseva, "Uniform properties of finitely generated groups"
10:00 - 11:00Alexei Miasnikov, "Free actions on Lambda-trees"
11:00 - 11:30Coffee break
11:30 - 12:00Mikhail Belolipetsky, "Counting manifolds and class field towers"
12:00 - 12:30Enric Ventura, "More on orbit-decidability and the conjugacy problem for free-by-free groups"
12:30 - 13:00Edward Turner, "The density of monomorphisms of free groups"
13:00 - 13:30Pascal Weil, "Algorithmic problems in finitely generated free groups"

15:30 - 16:00Andrew Duncan, "Partially commutative groups"
16:00 - 16:30Ben Fine, "Discriminating groups"
16:30 - 17:00Coffee break
17:00 - 17:30Olga Kharlampovich, "Equations with parameters in a fully residually free group"
17:30 - 18:00Arye Juhasz, "A Freiheitssatz for whitehead graphs of one-relator groups with small cancellations"

18:30 - 23:00
Visit to "St. Benet"
Dinner


Monday, September 4th

Cryptography Day

(Main Room)

9:00 - 9:30Ronald Cramer, "Algebraic geometric secret sharing schemes and secure multi-party computations over small fields"
9:30 - 10:00Consuelo Martínez, "Non-abelian groups based cryptosystems"
10:00 - 10:30Rainer Steinwandt, "What to expect from a key establishment protocol ?"
10:30 - 11:00M. Isabel González Vasco, "Secure group key establishment: constructions in the standard model"
11:00 - 11:30Coffee break
11:30 - 12:00Boaz Tsaban, "Generalized length-based attacks on Thompson's group"
12:00 - 12:30Dennis Hofheinz, "Chosen-ciphertext security: why and how"
12:30 - 13:00Jorge Villar, "Matrix groups over rings and Hensel lifting"

15:00 - 15:30Ben Fine, "Developing cryptosystems using formal power series rings"
15:30 - 16:00Vladimir Shpilrain, "Public key encryption secure against encryption emulation attack by a computationally unbounded adversary"
16:00 - 16:30Alexei Miasnikov, "Asymptotically dominant properties and subgroup attacks"
16:30 - 17:00Alexander Ushakov, "On length-based attack"
17:00 - 17:30Coffee