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The conference will be held from June 13th through June 17th at the Stevens Institute of Technology. Plenary talks will be held in the Morton-Peirce-Kidde Complex, Room K-228 (2nd floor), see the campus map. Below is a tentative schedule for every conference day.


  Monday, June 13, 2016:
8:30-8:55 Registration. Coffee
8:55-9:00 Opening remarks
9:00-9:40 Slides P. Schupp, Finitely generated groups with co-c.e. word problem (d'après Morozov)
9:50-10:30 SlidesM. Lohrey, Knapsack problems for right-angled Artin groups
Coffee break
10:40-11:20 Slides A. Miasnikov, Algorithmic group theory: where does it go?
11:30-12:10 SlidesP. Weil, Genericity of Whitehead minimality for finitely generated subgroups of free groups
Lunch break
1:30-2:10 Slides I. Bumagin, Linear word problem and quadratic conjugacy problem
2:20-3:00 Slides S. Hermiller, Trees, flow functions, and algorithms in groups
3:10-3:50 Slides V. Shpilrain, Mysteries of 2×2-matrices
Coffee break
4:00-4:30 Slides A. Gaglione, Elementary and Universal Equivalence of Group Rings
4:40-5:10 Slides A. Zakharov, Intersection of subgroups in fundamental groups of graphs of groups

  Tuesday, June 14, 2016:
8:30-9:00 Coffee
9:00-9:40 Slides T. Smirnova-Nagnibeda, Subgroups in branch groups
9:50-10:30 SlidesO. Kharlampovich, Equations in free associative algebras and group algebras
Coffee break
10:40-11:20 SlidesE. Ventura, Fixed subgroups are compressed in surface groups
11:30-12:10 SlidesB. Steinberg, Model theory, pseudofinite words and profinite completions of the free monoid
Lunch break. Gradarius presentation
1:30-2:10 Slides A. Nikolaev, Subset sum problem in polycyclic groups
2:20-3:00 Slides I. Lysenok, Burnside groups and small cancellation theory
3:10-3:50 Slides B. Eick, Isomorphism testing for nilpotent groups of small Hirsch length
Coffee break
4:00-4:30 Slides F. Gul, Magnus Embedding and Algorithmic Properties of Groups F/Nd
4:40-5:10 Slides J. Macdonald, Logspace and compressed-word computations in nilpotent groups: subgroup problems
5:20-5:50 Slides A. Weiss, On the dimension of matrix embeddings of torsion-free nilpotent groups

  Wednesday, June 15, 2016:
8:30-9:00 Coffee
9:00-9:40 Slides S. O'Rourke, A Combination Theorem for Affine Tree-Free Groups
9:50-10:30 SlidesD. Osin, Induced group actions on metric spaces
Coffee break
10:40-11:20 Slides I. Kapovich, Cannon-Thurston maps for hyperbolic free group extensions
11:30-12:10 SlidesK. Bou-Rabee, On finite quotients of Mapping Class groups
Lunch break
1:30-2:10 Slides D. Groves, Hyperbolic groups acting improperly
2:20-3:00 Slides J. Behrstock, Asymptotic dimension of mapping class groups
3:10-3:50 Slides L. Mosher, Hyperbolic actions and 2nd bounded cohomology for Out(Fn) and its subgroups
Coffee break
4:00-4:30 Slides E. Martinez-Pedroza, Subgroups of relatively hyperbolic groups of relative dimension 2
4:40-5:10 Slides C. Abbott, Universal acylindrical actions
5:20-5:50 Slides B. Fine, On CT and CSA groups and related ideas
6:30-9:00 Conference dinner

  Thursday, June 16, 2016:
8:30-9:00 Coffee
9:00-9:40 Slides O. Bogopolski, From local to global conjugacy in relatively hyperbolic groups
9:50-10:30 SlidesA. Minasyan, On conjugacy separability of subdirect products
Coffee break
10:40-11:20 Slides T. Koberda, Exotic quotients of surface groups
11:30-12:10 Slides L. Carbone,`Arithmetic' constructions of hyperbolic Kac-Moody groups
Lunch break
1:30-2:10 Slides K. Juschenko, Gluing together copies of amenable groups
2:20-3:00 Slides D. Savchuk, Affine Automorphisms of Rooted Trees
3:10-3:50 Slides K. Medynets, On Algebraic Properties of Full Groups
Coffee break
4:00-4:30 Slides E. Frenkel, Constructible groups
4:40-5:10 Slides A. Al-Juburie, A Finite Presentation for the Subgroup ConjF
5:20-5:50 Slides G. Rosenberger, Automorphisms groups of the solution sets of the Hurwitz equation

  Friday, June 17, 2016:
8:30-9:00 Coffee
9:00-9:40 Slides V. Diekert, Amenability of Schreier graphs and strongly generic algorithms for the conjugacy problem
9:50-10:30 SlidesT. Riley, Dehn functions, the word problem, hydra, and magical salmon
Coffee break
10:40-11:20 Slides J. Burillo, Permutational Thompson's groups
11:30-12:10 SlidesA. Piggott, Rewriting in groups
Lunch break
1:30-2:10 Slides B. Bogley, Coherence, subgroup separability, and metacyclic structures for a class of cyclically presented groups
2:20-3:00 Slides M. Kassabov, Hopf algebras and Representation varieties
3:10-3:50 Slides J. Delgado, Exploding Pullbacks & Intersections within Free-Abelian times Free Groups
4:00-4:40 Slides S. Kim, Obstruction for a virtual C2 action on the circle
4:40-4:45 Closing remarks