| Schedule for the 31st Annual Univ Arkansas Spring Lecture Series | ||||||
| Tuesday | 180 | 9:30 AM | 12:30 PM | Tim Riley | Using filling functions to explore the geometry of the word problem | |
| 90 | 12:30 PM | 2:00 PM | Lunch | |||
| 180 | 2:00 PM | 5:00 PM | Noel Brady | CAT(0) Stuff | ||
| Wednesday | 10 | 9:00 AM | 9:10 AM | Allan Cochran | Opening Remarks | |
| 60 | 9:10 AM | 10:10 AM | Martin Bridson | Geometric Group Theory: Lecture 1 | ||
| 10 | 10:10 AM | 10:20 AM | break | |||
| 60 | 10:20 AM | 11:20 AM | Walter Neumann | Quasi-isometry of graph manifold groups and Artin groups | ||
| 10 | 11:20 AM | 11:30 AM | break | |||
| 25 | 11:30 AM | 11:55 AM | Jason Behrstock | Dimension and rank of mapping class groups. | ||
| 25 | 11:55 AM | 12:20 PM | Jason Manning | Combinatorial horoballs, quasi-geodesic bicombings, and relative hyperbolicity | ||
| 100 | 12:20 PM | 2:00 PM | Lunch | |||
| 60 | 2:00 PM | 3:00 PM | Martin Bridson | Geometric Group Theory: Lecture 2 | ||
| 10 | 3:00 PM | 3:10 PM | break | |||
| 60 | 3:10 PM | 4:10 PM | Mike Davis | The cohomology of a Coxeter group with group ring coefficients as a W-module | ||
| 10 | 4:10 PM | 4:20 PM | break | |||
| 25 | 4:20 PM | 4:45 PM | Max Forester | High dimensional Dehn functions of groups | ||
| 25 | 4:45 PM | 5:10 PM | TBA | |||
| 5:30 PM | Barbeque, on the lawn of Old Main | |||||
| Thursday | 60 | 9:00 AM | 10:00 AM | Martin Bridson | Geometric Group Theory: Lecture 3 | |
| 10 | 10:00 AM | 10:10 AM | break | |||
| 60 | 10:10 AM | 11:10 AM | TBA | TBA | ||
| 10 | 11:10 AM | 11:20 AM | break | |||
| 25 | 11:20 AM | 11:45 AM | Atish Mitra | Some results on Nagata-Assouad dimension | ||
| 25 | 11:45 AM | 12:10 PM | Damian Osadja | Boundaries of right-angled hyperbolic buildings | ||
| 110 | 12:10 PM | 2:00 PM | Lunch | |||
| 60 | 2:00 PM | 3:00 PM | Martin Bridson | Geometric Group Theory: Lecture 4 | ||
| 10 | 3:00 PM | 3:10 PM | break | |||
| 60 | 3:10 PM | 4:10 PM | Karen Vogtmann | Outer space for right-angled Artin groups | ||
| 10 | 4:10 PM | 4:20 PM | break | |||
| 25 | 4:20 PM | 4:45 PM | Ilya Kazachkov | Pro-p groups with non-isomorphic discrete and continuous cohomology groups | ||
| 25 | 4:45 PM | 5:10 PM | Rena Levitt | Biautomaticity and Nonpositively Curved Piecewise Euclidean 2-Complexes | ||
| Friday | 60 | 9:00 AM | 10:00 AM | Martin Bridson | Geometric Group Theory: Lecture 5 | |
| 10 | 10:00 AM | 10:10 AM | break | |||
| 60 | 10:10 AM | 11:10 AM | Peter Kropholler | TBA | ||
| 10 | 11:10 AM | 11:20 AM | break | |||
| 25 | 11:20 AM | 11:45 AM | Josh Barnard | Distortion of surface groups in free-by-cyclic groups | ||
| 25 | 11:45 AM | 12:10 PM | Daniel Groves | The isomorphism problem for toral relatively hyperbolic groups | ||
| 110 | 12:10 PM | 2:00 PM | Lunch | |||
| 60 | 2:00 PM | 3:00 PM | Martin Bridson | Geometric Group Theory: Lecture 6 | ||
| 10 | 3:00 PM | 3:10 PM | break | |||
| 60 | 3:10 PM | 4:10 PM | Daniel Allcock | Infinitely Many Coxeter Groups through Dimension 19 | ||
| 10 | 4:10 PM | 4:20 PM | break | |||
| 25 | 4:20 PM | 4:45 PM | Susan Hermiller | Almost convexities and tame combings for groups | ||
| 25 | 4:45 PM | 5:10 PM | ||||
| 6:30 PM | Banquet, Ozark Mountain Smokehouse | |||||
| Saturday | 60 | 9:30 AM | 10:30 AM | Martin Bridson | Geometric Group Theory: Lecture 7 | |
| 15 | 10:30 AM | 10:45 AM | break | |||
| 60 | 10:45 AM | 11:45 AM | Jim Cannon | The algebraic topology of planar sets | ||
| 15 | 11:45 AM | 12:00 PM | break | |||
| 60 | 12:00 PM | 1:00 PM | Noel Brady | Perron-Frobenius eigenvalues, snowflake groups and isoperimetric spectra. | ||