Notes on MSRI lectures Fall 2007
Connections TK workshop Aug 16-17
Notes by W. Cavendish. Videos of these lectures are now available on the MSRI site.
Moon Duchin : The curve complex and its relatives Ania Lenzhen: Teichmuller space and (one of its) metrics Genevieve Walsh: Surfaces in 3-manifolds
Introductory TK workshop Aug 20-24
Notes by W. Cavendish. Videos of these lectures are now available on the MSRI site.
John Smillie:
Introduction to rational billiards Introduction to rational billiards II
Jeff Brock:
Simultaneous uniformization and limits of Kleinian groups. Some examples of limits of Kleinian groups Model manifolds for surface groups
Ken Bromberg:
The thick-thin decomposition Simplicial hyperbolic surfaces The geometry of hyperbolic manifolds via the curve complex
Yair Minsky:
Introduction to Kleinian groups Punctured torus groups Model manifolds for punctured torus groups and constructions in higher complexity
Jane Gilman: A survey of Schottky groups
Connections GGT workshop Aug 23-24
((Notes by Ioana Mihaila) Videos of these lectures are now available on the MSRI site.
Lisa Carbone: Groups acting on trees Indira Chatterji: Gromov's polynomial growth theorem Genevieve Walsh: Thurston's classification of surface automorphism Anna Weinhard: Mostow rigidity
Introductory GGT workshop Aug 27-31
(Notes by Ioana Mihaila) Videos of these lectures are now available on the MSRI site.
Series:
Jim Cannon: Nonpositive and negative curvature in Geometric group theory Ruth Charney: Artin and Coxter groups: Part 1, Part 2 Benson Farb: Mapping class groups Part 1, Part 2 Bruce Kleiner: Quasi-isometric rigidity Ian Leary: Finiteness properties and Bestvina-Brady Morse Theory
Talks:
Daniel Groves: Homomorphisms to mapping class groups Kim Ruane: Automorphisms of graph products Henry Wilton: Subgroup separability in residually free groups, based on joint paper with Martin Bridson Mike Davis: Cohomology of Coxeter groups and buildings
Short courses
Mark Feighn: Limit groups. Notes at http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~feighn/MSRI/ Lee Mosher: Mapping class groups. Notes by Y. Algom-Kfir at http://www.math.utah.edu/~yael/MCG/MCG.htm Zlil Sela: Algebraic geometry of groups. Notes by H. Wilton and L. Louder at http://www.math.utexas.edu/~henry.wilton/sela-msri.pdf Kevin Whyte: Quasi-isometry invariants of groups. Notes by W. Malone at http://www.math.utah.edu/~malone/QI/notes.pdf Mark Sapir : Asymptotic Invariants of Groups. Notes by C. Cashen http://www.math.uic.edu/~ccashen/MSRI/ Peter Kropholler: Finiteness properties of groups. Notes by W. Malone at http://www.math.utah.edu/~malone/gc Gilbert Levitt: Out(F_n). Notes by Catherine Pfaff: Lecture 1 Lecture 2 Lecture 3 Lecture 4
Postdoc seminar
Emanuele Delucchi: When Mr. Artin leaves
Talia Fernos: Notes available at: http://www.math.ucla.edu/~talia/(T)surveyTalk.pdf
Sam Sang-hyun Kim: Surface subgroups of right-angled Artin groups
GGT workshop November 5-9
Videos of these lectures are available on the MSRI site.
Organized By: Noel Brady, Mike Davis, Mark Feighn
Monday November 5, 2007
Alex Eskin	Coarse differentiation and the geometry of polycyclic groups
Yehuda Shalom	Almost normal subgroups of arithmetic groups and the structure of totally disconnected groups
Alexander Dranishnikov	On asymptotic dimension of Coxeter groups
Indira Chatterji	Median spaces and applications
Tuesday November 6, 2007
Karen Vogtmann	Automorphism groups of right-angled Artin groups
Panagiotis Papazoglou	Higher isoperimetric inequalities for complexes and groups
Anne Thomas	Lattices acting on polyhedral complexes
Denis Osin	Normal automorphisms of relatively hyperbolic groups
Koji Fujiwara	Rank-1 isometries on CAT(0) spaces and quasi-homomorphisms
Wednesday November 7, 2007
Bertrand REMY	A family of simple groups acting on buildings
Dan Margalit	Dimension of Torelli groups
Thomas Putman	On the homology of finite index subgroups of the mapping class group
Jason Behrstock	Quasi-isometric rigidity of the mapping class groups
Jan Dymara	L^2 cohomology of buildings
Thursday November 8, 2007
Vincent Guirardel	Geometric Makanin algorithm for solving equations in virtually free groups
Michael Handel	Global fixed points for centralizers and Morita's Theorem (joint work with John Franks)
Larsen Louder	Krull dimension for limit groups
Volodymyr Nekrashevych	Space of marked groups and non-uniform exponential growth
Friday November 9, 2007
Martin Bridson	Finitely presented, residually-free groups
Tadeusz Januszkiewicz	Groups with fixed point properties
Jason Manning	Residual finiteness and separability of quasi-convex subgroups
David Fisher	Kleiner's proof of the polynomial growth theorem
TK workshop November 12-16
Videos of these lectures are available on the MSRI site.