Arrangements for the first day of our conference are now complete.

There will be two informal talks on October 1st. Audience participation will be very much encouraged. The talks will be held in Steinman Hall, in the Lecture hall on the first floor. Coffee and tea will be available throughout the day.

The program for October 1^st is as follows:

  9:00 - 10:30   Registration and Breakfast

10:30 - 11:30   Gilbert Baumslag, CCNY

                         Finitely Generated and finitely presented groups - random remarks

11:30 - 12:30   General Discussion

 12:30 - 2:00    Lunch

   2:30 - 3:30    Alexei Miasnikov, McGill University

                         Group presentations: infinite versus finite

   3:30 - 5:00    General Discussion

Besides the research conducted by the members of CAISS, the Center for Algorithms and Interactive Scientific Software, both past and present, CAISS is the home of the infinite group package MAGNUS, the statistics software package Caiss-Stat, and the group theory puzzle game EXPACON.

Computers will be set up in Shepard Hall, Room 278 for anyone who is interested in the software and/or the game. A number of these computers will be available for internet access as well. Everyone is welcome to use that room.