THE FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

We would like to announce the conference

Group Actions in Topology and Geometric Group Theory
       The Third Group Action Forum Conference
           June 14-18, 2010, Poznan, Poland.

The conference topics will focus on smooth group actions
on manifolds and symmetry in geometric group theory.
To investigate this theme, we hope to have a variety of
talks ranging from the geometry and topology of manifolds
to discrete group actions on CAT(0) spaces and buildings.

The list of confirmed speakers now includes

Alejandro Adem                  Peter Kropholler
Hans Boden                      Slawomir Kwasik
Weimin Chen                     Ian Leary
Alexander Dranishnikov*         Bernhard Leeb*
Michael Davis*                  Wolfgang Lueck
Jan Dymara*                     Bob Oliver*
Fuquan Fang*                    Piotr Przytycki
Ronald Fintushel                Holger Reich*
David Fisher                    Daniel Ruberman*
Stefan Friedl                   Jacek Swiatkowski
Mikio Furuta                    Ulrike Tillmann
Tadeusz Januszkiewicz           __________________
                                 * tentative

The talks are planned for Monday-Friday, June 14-18, 2010,
with an excursion and a conference dinner on Wednesday, June 16.
The arrival day will be Sunday, June 13, 2010, and the departure
day will be Saturday, June 19, 2010.

There will be a registration fee of 100 euro to cover the costs
of conference materials, lunch and coffee breaks (Monday-Friday),
as well as the excursion and the conference dinner on Wednesday.

The Group Action Forum web site http://gaf.astagor.net will give
more conference details and the updated information.

The organizers of the conference,

Krzysztof Pawalowski, Andrzej Szczepanski,
Ian Hambleton, and Erik K. Pedersen

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