Scientific organisers
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Martin Bendersky, CUNY
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Jelena Grbić, University of Southampton
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Ian Leary, University of Southampton
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Stephen Theriault, University of Southampton
About:
The overall aim of the workshop was to generate research opportunities at the intersection of the homotopy theory and geometric group theory associated to polyhedral products. These two areas have substantial common ground but to date have had only limited interaction. The workshop significantly amplified the existing connections and investigated novel interactions between these two areas.
Resources
Programme:
| Monday 5 June | ||
| Registration and Refreshments | ||
| Welcome and Housekeeping | ||
| Michael Davis, Ohio State University | Graph products and generalized graph products | |
| Refreshments | ||
| Vladimir Vankov, University of Bristol | Bestvina-Brady groups and generalisations | |
| Lunch | ||
| Alexandre Martin, Heriot-Watt University | Graph products, Artin groups, and their related geometry | |
| Refreshments | ||
| Discussions | ||
| Welcome Reception, hosted at ICMS | ||
| Tuesday 6 June | ||
| Mark Grant, University of Aberdeen | Equivariantly aspherical presentations | |
| Refreshments | ||
| Abigail Linton, NTNU | The cohomology of partial quotients | |
| Lunch | ||
| Steven Amelotte, University of Western Ontario | Equivariant formality of torus actions on moment-angle complexes | |
| Refreshments | ||
| Problem Session | ||
| Public Lecture, by Ruth Charney | From Braid Groups to Artin Groups | |
| Wednesday 7 June | ||
| Rachael Boyd, University of Glasgow | Embedding spaces of links | |
| Refreshments | ||
| Ian Hambleton, McMaster University | Finite Group Actions and Chain Complexes over the Orbit Category | |
| Lunch and Free Afternoon | ||
| Thursday 8 June | ||
| Sarah Whitehouse, University of Sheffield | Homotopy theory and spectral sequences | |
| Refreshments | ||
| Xin Fu, Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences And Applications | Integral cohomology rings of four-dimensional toric orbifolds | |
| Lunch | ||
| Lary So, University of Western Ontario | Weighted polyhedral products and Steenrod's problem | |
| Refreshments | ||
| Alejandro Adem, University of British Columbia (via Zoom) | Clay Lecture: Minimal Euler Characteristics for Even-Dimensional Manifolds with A Given Fundamental Group | |
| Problem Session | ||
| Workshop Dinner, hosted at Blonde Restaurant | ||
| Friday 9 June | ||
| Conchita Martínez Pérez, Universidad de Zaragoza | Sigma invariants and Artin groups | |
| Refreshments | ||
| Naomi Andrew, University of Oxford | Centralisers in Out(Fn) | |
| Lunch and End of Workshop |
