Dear Colleagues,

This is the first announcement for an Advanced School and Workshop
on Geometric Group Theory and Low-Dimensional Topology: Recent Connections
and Advances to be held at ICTP Trieste, May 23d--June 6th 2016.

The Advanced School (May 23-- May 27) is aimed at graduate students and
will consist of 5 lecturers giving 3 talks each. There will be
afternoon breakout groups with participants working on problems.

The workshop will be held May 30 -- June 6th.

Advanced School Speakers:

Jeff Brock (Brown University)
Josh Greene (Boston College)
Pascal Hubert (Univ. Aix-Marseille)
Fanny Kassel (Univ. Lille 1)
Michah Sageev (Technion)

Workshop Speakers include:

Ian Agol (*) (U.C. Berkeley)
Steve Boyer (UQAM)
Ken Bromberg (Utah)
Jeff Danciger (U.T. Austin)
Moon Duchin (Tufts University)
Alex Eskin (Chicago)
Vincent Guiradel (Rennes 1)
Peter Haissinsky (Univ. Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)
Ursula Hamenstadt (Bonn)
Francois Labourie (Univ. Nice-Sophia Antipolis)
Jason Manning (Cornell)
Vlad Markovic (Cal Tech)
Gabriele Mondello (Univ. Rome, Sapienza)
Luisa Paoluzzi (Univ. Aix-Marseille)
Maria Pozzetti (Warwick)
Andres Sambarino (Paris)
Jean-Marc Schlenker (Luxembourg)
Alessandro Sisto (ETH Zurich)
Corinna Ulcigrai (Bristol)
Anna Wienhard (*) (Heidelberg)
Tengren Zhang (Cal Tech)

(*) indicates to be confirmed.

Further information, and an online application form
will be available shortly at the website:

http://indico.ictp.it/event/7646/

The organizers:

Michel Boileau
Dick Canary
Bruno Martelli
Maryam Mirzakhani
Alan Reid

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