Workshop Announcement:

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             Boundaries in Geometric Group Theory
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                   June 13 to June 17, 2005

  American Institute of Mathematics Research Conference Center

                     Palo Alto, California

        http://aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/groupboundaries.html


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Description:
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This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, 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.  The principal 
goal of the workshop is to bring together people working on this topic
so as to foster further research. 

The workshop is organized by
Misha Kapovich and Bruce Kleiner.

For more details please see the workshop announcement page:
http://aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/groupboundaries.html

Space and funding is available for a few more participants.
If you would like to participate, please apply by filling
out the on-line form (available at the link above) no later
than March 13, 2005. Applications are open to all, and
we especially encourage women, underrepresented minorities,
junior mathematicians, and researchers from primarily
undergraduate institutions to apply.

Before submitting an application, please read the ARCC
policies concerning participation and financial support
for participants.

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AIM Research Conference Center (ARCC):
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The AIM Research Conference Center (ARCC) hosts focused
workshops in all areas of the mathematical sciences. ARCC
focused workshops are distinguished by their emphasis on
a specific mathematical goal, such as making progress on a
significant unsolved problem, understanding the proof of an
important new result, or investigating the convergence between
two distinct areas of mathematics.

For more information about ARCC, please visit
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