The 3rd William Rowan Hamilton Geometry and Topology Workshop
                        September 6-8, 2007
        The Hamilton Mathematics Institute, Trinity College Dublin

                Pro-p groups and low-dimensional topology
 
Sponsors: Boston College and the Hamilton Mathematics Institute

Organizing Committee: Noel Brady (University of Oklahoma), Tom Brady (DCU),
Martin Bridgeman (Boston College),  Martin Bridson (Imperial College
London), Dmitri Zaitsev (TCD)

Workshop website: http://www.hamilton.tcd.ie/events/gt/gt2007.htm

This is the first announcement for the 3rd William Rowan Hamilton Geometry
and Topology Workshop to be held at the Hamilton Mathematics Institute
(HMI), in Trinity College Dublin Ireland. This year, the workshop runs from
Thursday, Sept 6th through Saturday, Sept 8th.

Topics: This year's topic is Pro-p groups and low-dimensional
topology. Specific topics include the virtual Haken and virtual fibering
conjectures, large groups, pro-p groups, property tau, subgroup growth and
L2-Betti numbers.

Funding and Sponsors:
The workshop is co-sponsored by Boston College, and the HMI. A limited
amount of funding is available for both junior and senior researchers
wishing to attend. 
 
  
Speakers:
Laurent Bartholdi (École Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne)
Nigel Boston (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Tim Cochran (Rice University)
Nathan Dunfield (California Insitute of Technology)
Shelly Harvey (Rice University)
Andrei Jaikin Zapirain (Universidad Autónoma, Madrid)
Martin Kassabov (Cornell University)
Marc Lackenby (Oxford University)
Darren Long (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Alexander Lubotzky (Hebrew University)
Alan Reid (University of Texas, Austin)
Dan Segal (Oxford University)
Peter Shalen (University of Illinois, Chicago)
Aner  Shalev* (Hebrew University)
Andrzej Zuk (Université Paris VII)

*to be confirmed 

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