As part of its ongoing effort to stimulate mathematical and scientific research at the City College of New York, the Center for Algorithms and Interactive Scientific Software (CAISS) holds two day-long conferences during the school year (as well as a number of others). A description of the first conference this year follows (this page provides information about the other work being carried out by CAISS).
CONFERENCE ON GROUP THEORY AND LOW DIMENSIONAL TOPOLOGY

DATE: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22nd, 2004
WHERE: The City College of New York
North Academic Center (NAC) Lecture Hall 0/201

The program is as follows:

   9:30-10:00 registration and refreshments

  10:00-11:00 Martin Bridson, Imperial College, London
  TITLE: "Subdirect products of hyperbolic groups, and Kaehler geometry"

  11:15-12:45 Charles Miller, University of Melbourne, Australia
  TITLE: "Decisions, Decisions..."

  12:15-2:00 Lunch

  2:00-3:00 Andrew Casson, Yale University
  TITLE: TBA

  3:30-4:30 Walter Neumann, Barnard College, Columbia University
  TITLE: "The automorphism group of a certain cubic"

Please let us know if you plan to come by emailing Sean Cleary.
Up-to-date information will be made available on our webpages at www.grouptheory.org on this site as needed.

This event is sponsored by the CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein, CCNY Provost Zeev Dagan, CCNY Dean of Science Maria Tamargo, CCNY Dean of Engineering Joseph Barba and the National Science Foundation and is hosted by the Center of Algorithms and Interactive Scientific Software and the New York Group Theory Cooperative.

Organized by: Gilbert Baumslag, Sean Cleary, and Bernice Ravitz.

If you plan to attend please contact:
      Sean Cleary at cleary@sci.ccny.cuny.edu

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The Center for Algorithms and Interactive Scientific Software is located in Shepard Hall 279 at the City College campus of the City University of New York.

 

 

About CAISS: The Center for Algorithms and Interactive Scientific Software is an outgrowth of the MAGNUS computational group theory project. MAGNUS is a graphically driven software package devoted to infinite group theory. It has been developed by members of the Mathematics Department of the City College of CUNY, in collaboration with a number of mathematicians and computer scientists in many parts of the world. The basic objectives of CAISS include the design of reusable software to facilitate scientific computation and research, the introduction of complicated finitely presented groups into cryptography, new ways of disseminating information in the form of computer books, and the further development of the computer algebra system AXIOM.