Workshop 2011

Previous Workshops

CGG I

On May 20 and May 21, 1996, the first edition of the workshop Crystallographic Groups and their Generalizations took place at KULAK.
A Postscript-version of a booklet containing the abstracts of all plenary talks and short communications of this workshop is here available.
At the back of this note, there is an alphabetical list of all participants in May 1996.
They are also (almost) all present on the following picture:

On this picture, you can recognize the 6 main speakers of the previous workshop, namely

Herbert Abels (Universität Bielefeld)

William Goldman (University of Maryland, College Park)

Fritz Grunewald (Universität Düsseldorf)

Kyung Bai Lee (University of Oklahoma)

Frank Raymond (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Dan Segal (All Souls College, Oxford)

CGG II

On May 26 - 28, 1999, the second edition of the workshop Crystallographic Groups and their Generalizations took place.
A Postscript-version of a booklet containing the abstracts of all plenary talks and short communications of this workshop is here available.
At the back of this note, there is an alphabetical list of all participants in May 1999.
They are also (almost) all present on the following picture:

On this picture, you can recognize the 7 main speakers of this workshop, namely

Y. Benoist (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)

M. Bridson (University of Oxford)

C. Casacuberta (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

K. Dekimpe (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Campus Kortrijk)

B. Farb (University of Chicago)

W. Goldman (University of Maryland, College Park)

G. Margulis (Yale University)

CGG III

On May 22 - 24, 2002, the third edition of the workshop Crystallographic Groups and their Generalizations took place. Actually, the name for this workshop was Discrete Groups and Geometric Structures, with Applications
A PDF-version of a booklet containing the abstracts of all plenary talks and short communications of this workshop is here available.
You can still visit the webpages of this workshop.
Here is the offical conference picture:

The 7 main speakers of this workshop were:

Y. Benoist (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris),

B. Farb (University of Chicago),

D. Fried (Boston University)

R. Grigorchuk (Steklov Institute of Mathematics, Moscow)

F. Labourie (Université Paris, Orsay)

G. Soifer(Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan)

CGG IV

On May 31 - June 3, 2005, the second edition of the workshop Discrete Groups and Geometric Structures, with Applications II took place.
A PDF-version of a booklet containing the abstracts of all plenary talks and short communications of this workshop is here available.
You can still visit the webpages of this workshop.
Here is the offical conference picture:

The 7 main speakers of this workshop were:

O. Baues (Univ. Karlsruhe),

Y. Benoist (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris),

M. Bridson (Imperial college, London)

B. Farb (University of Chicago)

O. Garcia Prada (CSIC Madrid)

E. Ghys (ENS Lyon)

D. Toledo(Univerity of Utah)

CGG V

On May 26 - 30, 2008, the third edition of the workshop Discrete Groups and Geometric Structures, with Applications III took place.
A PDF-version of a booklet containing the abstracts of all plenary talks and short communications of this workshop is here available.
You can still visit the webpages of this workshop.
Here is the offical conference picture:

The 8 main speakers of this workshop were:

Jørgen Andersen, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark

Martin Bridson, Oxford University, UK

Benson Farb, University of Chicago, USA

Fritz Grunewald, Universität Düsseldorf, Germany

Ursula Hamenstädt, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany

Alex Lubotzky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Nicolas Monod, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale, Lausanne, Switzerland

John Parker, University of Durham, UK

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)