In honour of Eliyahu Rips
ORGANIZERS:
Zlil Sela (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Michah Sageev (Technion)
The conference is centered around recent directions in combinatorial and geometric group theory and related areas. Special emphasis will be on surveys and future directions in connection with the work of Prof. Eliyahu Rips.
The topics to be covered include the mapping class group of a surface, the automorphism group of the free group, small cancellation groups and techniques and their application in rings, the dimension subgroups and their application in homotopy theory, finite and profinite groups, connections and applications in model theory (logic) and in low-dimensional topology, as well as applications of geometric group theory techniques in complex and Kahler geometry.
SPEAKERS:
Yael Algom-Kfir (University of Haifa)
Itay Benjamini (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Mladen Bestvina (University of Utah)
Lev Birbrair (Universidade Federal do Ceará)
Thomas Delzant (Strasbourg University)
Mark Feighn (Rutgers University)
Koji Fujiwara (Kyoto University)
Vincent Guirardel (University of Rennes 1)
Arye Juhasz (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology)
Alexey Kanel-Belov (Bar-Ilan University)
Ilya Kapovich (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Gilbert Levitt (Université de Caen)
Alexander Lubotzky (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Avinoam Mann (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Roman Mikhailov (Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow)
Alexander Ol'shanskii (Vanderbilt University)
Chloe Perin (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Boris Plotkin (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Eliyahu Rips (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Mark Sapir (Vanderbilt University)
Yoav Segev (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Peter B. Shalen (University of Illinois, Chicago)
Aner Shalev (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Daniel T. Wise (McGill University)
