Geometric Group Theory at Park City, July 1-21, 2012

The deadline for applications to the program in Geometric Group Theory
at the 2012 IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute on July 1-21, 2012  in
Park City, Utah is ***JANUARY 31***, which is fast approaching.

The organizers of this program are Mladen Bestvina, Michah Sageev, and
Karen Vogtmann.

PCMI houses integrated programs for mathematicians at all levels.
Typically there are about 40-50 research mathematicians, 80 graduate
students, 50 undergraduates, 30 undergraduate faculty and 80 high
school teachers.

Clay scholars-in-residence for the program will be Alex Lubotzky and
William Thurston.  Graduate courses are listed below. For brief
descriptions see http://math.utah.edu/pcmi12


Week 1:

Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace: Structure of CAT(0) spaces and their isometry groups

Tsachik Gelander: Arithmetic Groups, Locally Symmetric Manifolds and
some Asymptotic Invariants

Michael Kapovich: Quasi-isometric rigidity

Week 2:

Michah Sageev: CAT(0) cube complexes

Amie Wilkinson: Geometric rigidity and the geodesic flow in negative curvature

Dave Morris: Some arithmetic groups that do not act on the circle

Week 3:

Mladen Bestvina: Topology and Geometry of Outer space

Emmanuel Breuillard: Property T, expanders and approximate groups

Vincent Guirardel: Rotating families, Dehn fillings and small cancellation


Undergraduate courses will be given by Jennifer Taback and Kevin
Wortman, and the undergraduate faculty program is led by Moon Duchin.

Applications and  further information about the summer program are available at
http://pcmi.ias.edu/program-index

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