"Thompson's Groups: New Developments and Interfaces"

Marseilles, CIRM, June 2 -6, 2008.

Schedule



Monday, June 2, morning session, 09:15 - 12:15 am

  • 09:15 - 09:25
    		•  Opening
  • 09:30 - 10:30
    		•  Minicourse A: Matt BRIN, Cousins of Thompson's groups, I (Thompson & McKenzie's finitely presented group with an unsolvable word problem)
  • 11:00 - 12:00
    		•  Minicourse B: Etienne GHYS, Cohomology of Thompson's groups: old results!, I

    Monday, June 2, afternoon session, 04:00 - 07:30 pm

  • 04:00 - 04:45
    		•  Richard THOMPSON, The semigroup context
  • 05:00 - 05:45
    		•  Ross GEOGHEGAN, New invariants of Thompson's group F
  • 06:00 - 06:45
    		•  Christophe KAPOUDJIAN, Extensions of Thompson's group V
  • 07:00 - 07:30
    		•  Ross GEOGHEGAN, The Whitehead group of T


    Tuesday, June 3, morning session, 09:00 - 12:30 am

  • 09:00 - 10:00
    		•  Minicourse C: Dave MORRIS, Using left-invariant orders to study actions on 1-manifolds, I
  • 10:30 - 11:30
    		•  Minicourse A: Matt BRIN, Cousins of Thompson's groups, II (Braided groups)
  • 11:35 - 11:45
    		•  Minicourse A (addendum): Patrick DEHORNOY, Braid description of the group BVhat
  • 11:55 - 12:25
    		•  Juan GONZALEZ-MENESES, Bi-orderings on pure braided Thompson's groups

    Tuesday, June 3, afternoon session, 04:00 - 07:30 pm

  • 04:00 - 04:45
    		•  Colin BLEAK, Algorithmic processes in Thompson's groups
  • 05:00 - 05:45
    		•  Sean CLEARY, Random subgroups of Thompson's group F
  • 06:00 - 06:30
    		•  Bruce HUGHES, Local similarities and the Haagerup property
  • 06:45 - 07:15
    		•  Claas ROEVER, Commensurations and quasi-isometries of Thompson's group F


    Wednesday, June 4, morning session, 09:00 - 12:30 am

  • 09:00 - 10:00
    		•  Minicourse B: Etienne GHYS, Cohomology of Thompson's groups: old results!, II
  • 10:30 - 11:30
    		•  Minicourse C: Dave MORRIS, Using left-invariant orders to study actions on 1-manifolds, II
  • 11:45 - 12:30
    		•  Louis FUNAR, The braided Ptolemy-Thompson group T and applications to the quantization of Teichmuller spaces

    Free afternoon


    Thursday, June 5, morning session, 09:00 - 12:30 am

  • 09:00 - 10:00
    		•  Minicourse A: Matt BRIN, Cousins of Thompson's groups, III (Higher dimensional groups)
  • 10:30 - 11:30
    		•  Minicourse B: Vlad SERGIESCU, Cohomology of Thompson's groups: old results!, III
  • 11:45 - 12:15
    		•  Dan FARLEY, Actions of Brin's groups nV on CAT(0) cubical complexes

    Thursday, June 5, afternoon session, 04:00 - 07:30 pm

  • 04:00 - 04:45
    		•  Patrick DEHORNOY, Dual presentation of Thompson's group F and flip distance between triangulations
  • 05:00 - 05:45
    		•  Claire WLADIS, Metric behavior of generalizations of Thompson's group F
  • 06:00 - 06:30
    		•  Jose BURILLO, Metric properties of higher-dimensional Thompson's groups
  • 06:45 - 07:30
    		•  Ivan BABENKO, On the group of power series with integer coefficients


    Friday, June 6, morning session, 09:00 - 12:30 am

  • 09:00 - 10:00
    		•  Minicourse C: Dave MORRIS, Using left-invariant orders to study actions on 1-manifolds, III
  • 10:30 - 11:15
    		•  Francesco MATUCCI, Structure theorems for subgroups of homeomorphisms groups
  • 11:30 - 12:15
    		•  Alexei MURANOV, Arithmetic in groups of piecewise affine permutations of an interval

    Friday, June 6, afternoon session, 02:00 - 03:00 pm

  • 02:00 - 02:45
    		•  Andrzej ZUK, Amenability

    End of the meeting