University of Karlsruhe                                                                                                                    



Geometry and Algebra of Solvable Groups

Workshop / Miniconference, Universität Karlsruhe (TH),
October 16 - 20, 2006

Invited speakers

Thomas Delzant (Strasbourg, France)
Karel Dekimpe (Kortrijk, Belgium)
Cornelia Drutu (Lille, France)
Tsachik Gelander (Yale, U.S.A.)
Alex Eskin (Chicago, U.S.A.)
 Roman Sauer (Chicago, U.S.A.)
Fritz Grunewald (Düsseldorf, Germany)
Dave Witte-Morris (Lethbridge, Canada)
Christophe Pittet (Cornell, U.S.A - Marseille, France)
Patrick Ghanaat (Fribourg, Switzerland)




Topics

Lie groups, nil- and solvmanifolds, Einstein- and Riemannian metrics, discrete groups, quasi-isometries, isoperimetric inequalities, crystallographic groups, proper actions, Anosov diffeomorphisms, Kähler groups,  ........



Goals
presentation of recent results and/or work in progress
bringing together people interested in different aspects of the field

Program
       
       see here       


 List of participants

see here






Organizers

Oliver Baues and Enrico Leuzinger

Registration and local information



Supported by

DFG Schwerpunkt SPP 1154  (“Globale Differentialgeometrie”),  Universität Karlsruhe (TH)