Tuesday

Fourth Barcelona Weekend in Group Theory, April 24th and 25th

The program of the Fourth Barcelona Weekend in Group Theory is:

Friday April 24th, Auditori Centre de Recerca Matemàtica

  • 15:00 Gilbert Levitt (Université de Caen, France)
    From Baumslag-Solitar groups to companion matrices.

  • 16:15 Claas Röver (National University of Ireland, Galway)
    Groups with Context-Free Conjugacy Problem.
  • 17:30 Armando Martino (University of Southampton, England)
    Isometries of Outer Space.

Saturday April 25th, FME Aula 102, Edifici U, UPC Campus Sud
  • 10:00 Oleg Bogopolski (Universität Düsseldorf, Germany)
    On the fundamental and the first singular homology groups of the Hawaiian Earrings and of Griffiths' space.
  • 11:15 Adolfo Ballester Bolinches (Universitat de València, Spain)
    On abnormal maximal subgroups of finite groups.

  • 12:30 Goulnara Arzhantseva (Université of Genéve, Switzerland)
    Geometric small cancellation conditions with applications.