Schedule of talks

Saturday morning session:

• 9:00 Matt Brin: Birth, death and the braid group.
• 9:30 John Meier: Finiteness properties of the braided Thompson group.
• 10:00 Ross Geoghegan: Controlled topology and group theory.
• 10:30 Ruth Charney: Progress on the $K(\pi,1)$-conjecture for Artin groups.

Saturday afternoon session:

• 2:30 Mark Feighn: Free decompositions of graphs of free groups.
• 3:00 Susan Hermiller: Minimal almost convexity.
• 3:30 Gilbert Baumslag: Embedding wreath-like products in finitely presented groups.
• 4:00 Bob Gilman: Approximating word problems of groups.
• 4:30 Lee Mosher: Train track quasigeodesics in mapping class groups.
• 5:00 Karen Vogtmann: Graph homology and Outer space.

Sunday morning session:

• 9:00 Azer Akhmedov: The girth of groups and quasi-isometry.
• 9:30 Andrew Casson:Trivializations of group presentations and the Andrews-Curtis conjecture.
• 10:00 Tim Riley: The gallery length filling function for finite presentations of groups.
• 10:30 Kim Ruane: Approximating CAT(0) geodesics by Cayley graph geodesics.

Sunday afternoon session:

• 2:00 Maurico Gutierrez: Sections of projections from a free product to one of its factors.
• 2:30 Bob Bell: Three Dimensional FC Artin Groups are CAT(0).
• 3:00 Inna Bumagin: Properties of relatively hyperbolic groups.
• 3:30 David Fisher: Superrigidity for Quasi-isometric Embeddings.
• 4:00 Anton Kaul: Automorphisms of right-angled Coxeter groups.

Where and When

The AMS page about the meeting is 2002 Fall AMS Eastern Section Meeting

Preprint Table

Organizers

• Sean Cleary, City College of the City University of New York
• Murray Elder, Tufts University
• Jennifer Taback, University at Albany

Registration

Accommodations, and Travel Arrangements

• Cambridge Gateway Inn in Cambridge
  • Location: map 10 minutes walk from the Alewife station on the Red Line (Northeastern is on one of the branches of the Green Line)
  • Kim Ruane arranged a block of rooms at the following rates:
  • 1 person - $71.99 + taxes per night
  • 2 people - $76.49 + taxes per night
  • Phone: (617) 661-7800, contact is named Barbara, and the rates are good for a block of 10 rooms until September 15
• Lists of hotels, bed and breakfast places and other accommodations in and near Boston are available from MIT