September 28, 2007

8:30-9:00 am

Continental Breakfast, Please sign in at the Registration table

9:00-9:05am

Opening Remarks, Zeev Dagan, Provost City College of New York

9:05-9:10am

Gilbert Baumslag

9:10-9:25am Ben Fine, Fairfield University

“The Effect of an Advisor: Remembrances of Magnus”

9:25-10:15am Joan Birman, Barnard College of Columbia University

“The conjugacy problem in the braid groups: respice, adspice, prospice"

10:15-10:30am

Coffee Break

10:30-11:20am Martin Bridson, Imperial College

"Finitely presented, residually free groups"

11:30-12:20pm Laurent Batholdi, EPF-Lausanne

“Automorphisms of Free Groups”

12:20-1:30pm

Lunch in the Faculty Dining Room

1:30-2:20pm Tatiana Smirnova-Nagnibeda, University of Geneva

“ Subgroups of free groups from the dynamical viewpoint”

2:25-3:15pm Rostislav Grigorchuk, Texas A&M University

“ On Isoperimetric functions of finitely presented groups”

3:20-4:10pm Alexei Miasnikov, McGill University

“ Algebraic geometry over groups and free actions”

4:10-4:25pm

Coffee Break

4:25-5:15pm Denis Osin, City College of New York

“ Asymptotic dimension and type functions of finitely generated groups”

September 29, 2007

10:00-10:15am

Coffee

10:15-10:30am Bruce Chandler, City University of New York

“Magnus Comes to America: A Student’s View”

10:30-11:20am John Conway, Princeton University

“Helling Made Easy”

11:30-12:20pm Alexander Ol’shanskii, Vanderbilt University

"Limits of hyperbolic groups and their asymptotic cones."

12:20-1:50pm

Lunch on Your Own

1:50-2:40pm Robert Gilman, Stevens Institute of Technology

“Why coset enumeration works”

2:50-3:40pm Olga Kharlampovich, McGill University

"Algorithmic problems for groups: well known results and new trends"

3:40-4:00pm

Coffee Break

4:00-4:50pm Mark Sapir, Vanderbilt University

“Asymptotic properties of groups acting on hyperbolic graphs, lattices in Lie groups, and their subgroups”

5:00-5:50 Volodymyr Nekrashevych, Texas A&M University

“Free subgroups and amenability of groups acting on rooted trees”