Schedule for Thursday 15th April 2010

After arriving, please go to room 3.19 in the Herschel Building third floor from 09:00am to register (if you have not already registered). Talks will begin at 10am in TR3 on the fourth floor and Coffee will be served in room TR1 from 11:00am to 11:30am.

A sandwich lunch will be provided from 12:30pm to 2:00pm in room 3.19 of the Herschel Building.

Summary

The event will start at about 10.00am and run till the late afternoon, with a break for lunch. Sandwiches and drinks will be provided for lunch (the cost is covered by the registration fee).

Apart from two one hour talks by our guest speakers, the day will consist of talks by some of the participants, each about 15 minutes long with 5 minutes for questions.

Timetable

The timetable for the day is as follows.

TimeTalks
(All talks in TR3)
10:00am - 11:00amInvited talk by Olga Kharlampovich in TR3:
Limit Groups
11:00pm - 11:30pmCoffee break in room TR1
11:30am - 11:50amDr Nicholas Touikan:
Finding Grushko decompostions
11:50am - 12:10pmTara Brough:
Subgroups of finitely generated metabelian groups
12:10pm - 12:30pmChristian Perfect:
Stallings' Pregroups
12:30pm - 2:00pmSandwich lunch in room 3.19
2:00pm - 2:20pmDavid Elliott:
Cohomology of Banach Algebras
2:20pm - 2:40pmAli Everett:
Commuting Involution Graphs of some Sympletic Groups
2:40pm - 3:00pmNathan Barker:
Expander Graphs
3:00pm - 3:30pmCoffee break in room TR1
3:30pm - 4:30pmInvited talk by Anne Thomas in TR3:
Lattices in exotic groups

We will probably go for food at around 5:30-6:00pm, although this depends on what suits most people best.