Group Theory: Generations
Celebrating the Centenary of One of the Founders
of Combinatorial Group Theory
September 28-29, 2007
The City College of New York and The CUNY Graduate Center
The Center for Algorithms and Interactive Scientific Software of the
Division of Science and the Grove School of Engineering of the City College of
New York, in collaboration with Texas A & M,
announces a two-day conference on group
theory. The conference will celebrate the
100th anniversary of the birth
of one of the founders of infinite group theory, Wilhelm Magnus.
This conference will be held at the City College of New York
at 137th and Convent Ave on Friday September 28 2007 and at the
CUNY Graduate Center on 5th Ave at 34th St on Saturday, September 29.
The full webpage for the conference is here.
The anticipated speakers are:
- Laurent Bartholdi, Ecole Polytechnique Federal, Lausanne
- Joan Birman, Barnard College of Columbia University
- Martin Bridson, Imperial College, London
- Bruce Chandler, City University of New York
- Benson Farb, University of Chicago
- Ben Fine, Fairfield University
- Robert Gilman, Stevens Institute of Technology
- Rostislav Grigorchuk, Texas A&M University
- Olga Kharlampovich, McGill University
- Alexei Miasnikov, McGill University
- Volodymyr Nekrashevych, Texas A&M University
- Alexander Ol'shanskii, Vanderbilt University
- Denis Osin, The City College of New York
- Mark Sapir, Vanderbilt University
- Paul Schupp, University of Illinois
- Tatiana Smirnova-Nagnibeda, University of Geneva
This two-day conference will be held at the City College of New York (at 137th and Amsterdam Ave) on Friday and
at the CUNY Graudate Center (on 5th Ave at 34th St) on Saturday.
This event is sponsored by CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein, CCNY Provost Zeev Dagan,
CCNY Dean of Science Maria Tamargo, CCNY Dean of Engineering Joseph Barba and the
National Science Foundation, and is hosted by the Center of Algorithms and Interactive
Scientific Software (CAISS) and the New York Group Theory Cooperative.
Organized by Gilbert Baumslag, Sean Cleary, Rostislav Grigorchuck, Vladimir Shpilrain, Zoran Sunic and Mary Tramel
Additional details will be announced as they become available. Anyone requiring more information at this time should
contact cleary@sci.ccny.cuny.edu or mtramel@ccny.cuny.edu
Printable flyer in PDF form
Organized by Gilbert Baumslag, Sean Cleary, Rostislav Grigorchuk, Vladimir Shpilrain, Zoran Sunic, and Mary Tramel