Workshop Announcement: ---------------------------------------------------------------- Dichotomy Amenable/Nonamenable in Combinatorial Group Theory ---------------------------------------------------------------- October 8 to October 12, 2007 American Institute of Mathematics Research Conference Center Palo Alto, California http://aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/nonamenable.html ------------ Description: ------------ This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, will be devoted to various incarnations of the notion of amenability for a finitely generated group. The main goal of the workshop is to gain better understanding of the meaning of being amenable or nonamenable for a discrete, finitely generated group. Our attention will be concentrated on a certain number of concrete open problems about (non)amenability of groups with origins in very different areas of mathematics, as described on the workshop announcement page. The workshop is organized by Mark Sapir and Tatiana Nagnibeda. For more details please see the workshop announcement page: http://aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/nonamenable.html Space and funding is available for a few more participants. If you would like to participate, please apply by filling out the on-line form (available at the link above) no later than June 20, 2007. Applications are open to all, and we especially encourage women, underrepresented minorities, junior mathematicians, and researchers from primarily undergraduate institutions to apply. Before submitting an application, please read the ARCC policies concerning participation and financial support for participants. -------------------------------------- AIM Research Conference Center (ARCC): -------------------------------------- The AIM Research Conference Center (ARCC) hosts focused workshops in all areas of the mathematical sciences. ARCC focused workshops are distinguished by their emphasis on a specific mathematical goal, such as making progress on a significant unsolved problem, understanding the proof of an important new result, or investigating the convergence between two distinct areas of mathematics. For more information about ARCC, please visit http://www.aimath.org/ARCC/