Boundaries in Geometric Group Theory

June 13 to June 17, 2005

at the

American Institute of Mathematics, San Jose, California

organized by

Misha Kapovich and Bruce Kleiner

Original Announcement

This workshop will serve to facilitate discussions on various aspects of boundaries of groups. A variety of different constructions of boundaries at infinity have long played an important role in geometric group theory and related areas such as Kleinian groups, rigidity theory for lattices, 3-manifolds, and nonpositive curvature. In the last 7 years, there has been particularly intense progress on boundaries, especially boundaries of hyperbolic groups and CAT(0) groups. For example: The principal goal of the workshop is to bring together people working on this topic so as to foster further research. There will be several survey lectures to help participants take stock of all the new developments, and disseminate ideas across customary barriers (expose the more analytic ideas to topologists, and topological ideas to analysts, etc).

Material from the workshop

A list of participants.

The workshop schedule.

A report on the workshop activities.