Since the workshop is finished, these pages are no longer up-to-date.

What is however new since the closing of the workshop: the final version of the booklet of abstracts, the final list of participants and the pictures!

And this is the official conference picture (click for the full size version, 2.600 kB):

 
The aim of this meeting is to report on and to discuss recent developments and problems in the field.

Main talks (one hour each) will be given by

Y. Benoist (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris), Projective deformations of hyperbolic structures.

B. Farb (University of Chicago), Group actions and Helly's Theorem.

D. Fried (Boston University), Affine flows on affine manifolds.

R. Grigorchuk (Steklov Institute of Mathematics, Moscow), Algorithmic problems and L-presentations of branch groups.

F. Labourie (Université Paris, Orsay), Surface groups and SL(n,R).

G. Soifer(Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan), Affine crystallographic groups leaving a quadratic form of signature (n,2) invariant.

Topics involved:

Recent developments concerning all interactionsbetween group theory and geometry are the subject of this workshop.

A non-exhaustive list of possible topics include:

Geometric group theory

Group actions on manifolds

Crystallographic groups  and all possible generalizations (affine, polynomial, projective crystallographic groups, almost-crystallographic groups)

Discrete subgroups of Lie groups

Graphs of groups

Also applications (in and beyond the fields mentioned) belong to the scope of the workshop.

Supported by

the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Campus Kortrijk (Faculty of Sciences)
the Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders (Belgium) (F.W.O.)
the F.W.O. Research Network WO.011.96N

You can also download the Final Announcement .