Final Announcement


The Kortrijk workshop on

Discrete Groups and Geometric Structures,
with Applications IV  (CGG VI)


Will be held at Oostende (Belgian Coast), May 30 - June 2, 2011



The program of the first two days of this workshop will be dedicated to the memory of Fritz Grunewald, who was involved in the organization and the program of all previous editions.




The main invited speakers for this workshop are:
  • Martin Bridson (Oxford University)
    On "Decision problems and the nature of groups with isomorphic profinite completions"

  • William Goldman (University of Maryland, College Park)
    On "Examples of deformation spaces of geometric structures"

  • Ursula Hamenstädt (Universität Bonn)
    On "Handlebody groups and mapping class groups: Similarities and differences"

  • Alex Lubotzky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
    On "Sieve methods in group theory: applications to Aut(Fn) and the mapping class group"

  • Ludovic Marquis (Université de Rennes)
    On "Finite volume quotient of Hilbert Geometry"

  • Alan Reid (University of Texas)
    On "Distinguishing residually finite groups by their finite quotients"

  • Alain Valette (Université de Neuchâtel)
    On "Compression and equivariant compression for metric spaces and groups"

  • Anna Wienhard (Princeton University)
    On "Domains of Discontinuity for Anosov representation"



This workshop is followed immediately by the Herbert Abels 70th Birthday Conference

Transformation Groups and Associated Geometric Structures
June 2-5 2011, Bielefeld (Germany)

One can contact prof. A. Rapinchuk (asr3x(at)virgina(dot)edu) for more details about the above event.


This workshop is supported by:


Karel Dekimpe , Paul Igodt, Nansen Petrosyan
Department of Mathematics
Research Group Algebraic Topology and Group Theory
K.U.Leuven Campus Kortrijk (KULAK)
B-8500 Kortrijk, Belgium
e-mail: workshop@kuleuven-kortrijk.be
Fax: +32 - 56 24 69 99 (attn. Karel Dekimpe)