GoTh Workshop: Groups of Thompson and their relatives

Around six decades ago, Richard Thompson introduced a triad of groups of homeomorphisms F, T and V, which were later popularized due to their remarkable combinatorial, algebraic, analytic, and cohomological properties. This workshop is part of a sporadic conference series revolving around Thompson's original groups, their generalizations, and related variants. Many experts in the area will gather to discuss recent developments.

• Valeriano Aiello (Geneva)
• Jim Belk (Glasgow)
• Robert Bieri (Binghamton/Frankfurt)
• Collin Bleak (St. Andrews)
• José Burillo (Barcelona)
• Fabienne Chouraqui (Haifa)
• Sean Cleary (New York)
• Louis Funar (Grenoble)
• Ross Geoghegan (Binghamton)
• Gili Golan (Beersheba)
• Nancy Guelman (Montevideo)
• James Hyde (Copenhagen)
• Se-Jin Kim (Leuven)
• Dessislava Kochloukova (Campinas)
• Yash Lodha (Honolulu)
• Conchita Martínez-Perez (Zaragoza)
• Francesco Matucci (Milan)
• Tatiana Nagnibeda (Geneva)
• Feyishayo Olukoya (Keele)
• Rachel Skipper (Salt Lake City)
• Jennifer Taback (Brunswick)
• Olga Varghese (Düsseldorf)
• Alina Vdovina (New York)
• Dilshan Wijesena (Sydney)

Here are the schedule and the list of abstracts. See also the workshop poster.
We have limited funding available and expect to be able to cover accommodation costs for some of the young participants. If you would like to be considered for financial support, please indicate so in the registration form. There is no conference fee.
Registration deadline: 30.07.2023.

• Faryad Ali (Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud University, Riyadh)
• Alex Bishop (Université de Genève)
• Rudradip Biswas (Bielefeld / Warwick University)
• Laura Bonn (KIT)
• Kai-Uwe Bux (Universität Bielefeld)
• Ilaria Castellano (Universität Bielefeld)
• Alexandra Ciotau (University of Manchester)
• Isobel Davies (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg)
• Christian De Nicola Larsen (UNSW)
• Jeremias Epperlein (Universität Passau)
• Jorge Fariña-Asategui (Lund University)
• Michal Ferov (University of Newcastle)
• Roman Gorazd (University of Newcastle)
• Elisa Hartmann (Universität Bielefeld)
• Hayder Janabi (University of Kufa)
• Ratan Lal (Lovely Professional University)
• Porfirio Leandro Leon Alvarez (Instituto de matemáticas, UNAM)
• Claudio Llosa Isenrich (KIT)
• Tianyi Lou (Université Côte d’Azur)
• Marco Lotz (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg)
• Kurosh Mavaddat Nezhaad (University of Kashan)
• Anna Michael (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg)
• Vahagn Mikaelian (Yerevan State University)
• Lewis Molyneux (Royal Holloway, University of London)
• Semra Öztürk (Midle East Tecnical University)
• Davide Perego (University of Milano-Bicocca)
• João Vitor Pinto e Silva (University of Newcastle)
• José Pedro Quintanilha (Universität Bielefeld)
• Yuri Santos Rego (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg)
• Dmytro Savchuk (University of South Florida)
• Eduard Schesler (FernUniversität Hagen)
• Petra Schwer (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg)
• Paul Hannes Schneider (University Bielefeld)
• Ryan Seelig (UNSW)
• Liam Stott (University of St Andrews)
• Matteo Tarocchi (University of Milano-Bicocca)
• Thomas Weigel (University of Milano-Bicocca)
• George Willis (University of Newcastle)

Magdeburg is well-served by frequent train connections to other larger cities, such as Hannover, Berlin, or Leipzig. Magdeburg is almost equidistant to those three cities, so getting to any of them means that you can easily get to Magdeburg from there.

- Traveling by train to Magdeburg Hbf, which stands for "Magdeburg Hauptbahnhof", i.e., Magdeburg Main Train Station. Most train connections and tickets can be booked directly via Deutsche Bahn https://www.international-bahn.de/en/ or https://www.bahn.com/en
You can also buy the tickets (also for local trams and buses) via their app or DB machines.
Suggestion: when looking for train connections on the Deutsche Bahn website, always unmark the "Show fastest connections" option (in case you are booking in German, unmark "schnellste Verbindungen anzeigen").

- Traveling by plane: the most convenient airport nearby is Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER). It has its own train station within the airport. There are plenty of train connections between BER and Magdeburg, the ride usually takes about 2h30min in the standard route. The closest airport to Magdeburg is actually Leipzig/Halle (LEJ), around 1h40min by train. Though it is quite small, operating mostly local flights (and the eventual popular connection Germany - Spain). The closest super hub is Frankfurt Airport (FRA), though it is still a long train ride away from Magdeburg (between 4h20min and 5h). FRA has the advantage of having good services/facilities. You might want to consider Munich Airport (MUC). It is almost as well connected as FRA with a not-much-worse train ride (45min from the airport to the city center, then slightly over 4h from Munich to Magdeburg).

The tram stop closest to the Math Department is Universität, and the department is located in buildings 2 and 3 of the campus Universitätsplatz. Here you can find a map, along with various nearby restaurants.
All talks will take place in room G03-106 (in Building 03 on the main campus).

All talks will be streamed online and anyone interested can join; no registration is necessary. The ID of the Zoom room is 613 2292 0012, and the password is the blank in the following sentence: "This is a workshop about ________ groups." (8 letters, first letter a capital T, all other letters lower case, rhymes with "Johnson").

Kai-Uwe Bux, Ilaria Castellano, José Pedro Quintanilha, Yuri Santos Rego

Universität Bielefeld, OvGU-Magdeburg, SFB/TRR 358
The workshop is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) — SFB-TRR 358/1 2023 — 491392403