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Automorphisms of free groups

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Conference
From November 12, 2012
to November 16, 2012

Introduction

The goal of this conference is to bring together the leading researchers on the subject of automorphisms of free groups, with emphasis on the geometric aspects.

Organizing Committee

Matt T. Clay, University of Arkansas​
 
Juan González-Meneses, Universidad de Sevilla
 
Martin Lustig, Université d’Aix-Marseille
 
Alexandra Pettet, University of British Columbia at Vancouver
 
Enric Ventura Capell, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya ​

SPEAKERS

Yael Algom-Kfir, Yale University

Javier Aramayona, University of Ireland at Galway
Finite rigid sets in curve complexes

Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah
Free factor projections

Martin Bridson, Oxford University
Nielsen equivalence and the profinite genus of finitely presented groups

Chris Cashen, Universität Wien
Mapping Tori of Polynomially Growing Free Group Automorphisms​
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Vincent Guirardel, (IRMAR) Université de Rennes 1

Ursula Hamenstädt, Universität Bonn

Arnaud Hilion, Aix-Marseille Université

Ilya Kapovich, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
On hyperbolicity of the free factor and free splitting complexes

Gilbert Levitt, Université de Caen

Luis Paris, Université de Bourgogne
Presentations for the mapping class groups of nonorientable surfaces

Doron Puder, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Primitive Words, Measure Preservation and Mobius Inversions on the lattice of Subgroups of F_k

Patrick Reynolds, University of Utah

Saul Schleimer, University of Warwick

Alessandro Sisto, Oxford University
Actions on hyperbolic spaces and random walks

Juan Souto, The University of British Columbia​

Jing Tao, University of Utah

Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University, USA
Outer spaces for right-angled Artin groups

Pascal Weil, Université de Bourdeaux I
A solvable orbit problem: when does a subgroup meet the orbit of a word under the action of Aut(F) in the rank 2 free group​

Bert Wiest, Université de Rennes 1

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