The William Rowan Hamilton Geometry and Topology Workshop: Celebrating Martin Bridson’s 60th Birthday
Date: 30 June - 4 July 2025
Location: Trinity College Dublin
Event type: Workshop
Organisers: Martin Bridgeman (Boston College), Daniel Groves (Illinois at Chicago), Dawid Kielak (Oxford), Timothy Riley (Cornell), Sam Shepherd (Vanderbilt) Henry Wilton University of Cambridge
Geometric Group Theory began in the 1980s and 90s, formed from a rich synthesis of ideas from areas including geometry, topology, algebra, analysis and dynamics. One of its central themes is non-positive curvature – a fundamental concept in the geometry of manifolds for at least 200 years – and how this can manifest in a vast range of geometric spaces and their groups of symmetries. This was the topic of Martin Bridson’s highly influential book with André Haefliger, Metric Spaces of Non-Positive Curvature. Geometric Group Theory has led to spectacular advances in the study of 3-manifolds, algorithmic properties of groups, automorphisms of groups, and many other areas.
The workshop will be a major event in the field, presenting an unrivaled opportunity for researchers around the globe to interact and learn about some of the area’s best cutting-edge research through the workshop’s program of talks.
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