Schedule for: 24w5179 - Combinatorial Nonpositive Curvature

Beginning on Sunday, September 1 and ending Friday September 6, 2024

All times in Banff, Alberta time, MDT (UTC-6).

Sunday, September 1
16:00 - 17:30 Check-in begins at 16:00 on Sunday and is open 24 hours (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
20:00 - 22:00 Informal gathering
Meet and Greet at BIRS Lounge (PDC 2nd floor)
(Other (See Description))
Monday, September 2
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
08:45 - 09:00 Introduction and Welcome by BIRS Staff
A brief introduction to BIRS with important logistical information, technology instruction, and opportunity for participants to ask questions.
(TCPL 201)
09:00 - 09:40 Henry Wilton: Surface groups among cubulated groups (TCPL 201)
09:50 - 10:30 Piotr Przytycki: Trees, fixed points, and the Cremona group (Online)
10:30 - 10:50 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:50 - 11:30 Nima Hoda: A flat torus theorem for quadric complexes (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
13:00 - 13:20 Group Photo
Meet in foyer of TCPL to participate in the BIRS group photo. The photograph will be taken outdoors, so dress appropriately for the weather. Please don't be late, or you might not be in the official group photo!
(TCPL Foyer)
13:20 - 14:00 Michael Dougherty: Manifold models for dual Artin groups (TCPL 201)
14:10 - 14:50 Alexandre Martin: On the Hopf and co-Hopf properties for large-type Artin groups (TCPL 201)
14:50 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 16:10 Kevin Schreve: L^2-homology of right-angled Coxeter groups based on barycentric subdivisions (Online)
16:20 - 17:30 Early career session (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
Tuesday, September 3
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:40 Damian Osajda: Drilling hyperbolic groups (TCPL 201)
09:50 - 10:30 Motiejus Valiunas: Helly groups and relative hyperbolicity (TCPL 201)
10:30 - 10:50 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:50 - 11:30 Talia Fernos: The semi-simple theory of acylindricity in higher rank (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
13:00 - 13:20 Nicolas Vaskou: Rigidity for certain families of non-positively curved Artin groups (TCPL 201)
13:25 - 13:45 Martin Axel Blufstein Garcia: (co-)Hopfian Artin groups (TCPL 201)
13:50 - 14:10 Shaked Bader: Subgroups of word hyperbolic groups in dimension 2 over arbitrary rings (TCPL 201)
14:15 - 14:35 Nic Brody: Surfaces in arithmetic complexes (TCPL 201)
14:40 - 15:00 Zachary Munro: On residual finiteness of graphs of free groups with cyclic edge groups (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 15:50 Christopher Karpinski: Hyperfiniteness of boundary actions of graphical small cancellation groups (TCPL 201)
15:55 - 16:15 Macarena Arenas: The Cohen-Lyndon property (TCPL 201)
16:20 - 16:40 Karol Duda: Torsion subgroups of small cancellation groups (TCPL 201)
16:45 - 17:05 Marco Linton: Lifting relations in right orderable groups (TCPL 201)
17:10 - 17:30 Carl Kristof-Tessier: Bipodality and the parallel wall theorem for Coxeter groups (Online)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
Wednesday, September 4
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:40 Victor Chepoi: Boundary rigidity of finite CAT(0) cube complexes (TCPL 201)
09:50 - 10:30 MurphyKate Montee: Isoperimetry and Cubulation in Random Quotients of Free Products (TCPL 201)
10:30 - 10:50 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:50 - 11:30 Discussion Session (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
13:00 - 17:30 Free Afternoon (Banff National Park)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
Thursday, September 5
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:40 Jason Manning: Some negatively curved 3-dimensional pseudomanifolds without cubulations. (TCPL 201)
09:50 - 10:30 Elia Fioravanti: Growth of automorphisms of special groups (TCPL 201)
10:30 - 10:50 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:50 - 11:30 Thomas Ng: Multiended boundary criteria for relative cubulation (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
13:00 - 13:40 Anne Thomas: Divergence and hypergraph index for general Coxeter groups (TCPL 201)
13:50 - 14:30 Jeroen Schillewaert: Groups acting on R-buildings (TCPL 201)
14:30 - 15:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:00 - 15:40 Petra Schwer: Conjugation in Euclidean isometry groups (TCPL 201)
16:00 - 17:00 Discussion Session (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
Friday, September 6
07:00 - 11:00 Checkout by 11AM
5-day workshop participants are welcome to use BIRS facilities (TCPL ) until 3 pm on Friday, although participants are still required to checkout of the guest rooms by 11AM.
(Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:40 Sam Shepherd: One-ended halfspaces in group splittings (TCPL 201)
09:50 - 10:30 Annette Karrer: Subgroups arising from connected components in Morse boundaries of right-angled Coxeter groups (TCPL 201)
10:30 - 10:50 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch from 11:30 to 13:30 (Vistas Dining Room)