AMS Special Session at Hunter College, City University of New York

The Special Session on Infinite Permutation Groups, Totally Disconnected Locally Compact Groups and Geometric Group Theory organised by Simon Smith (University of Lincoln) and Delaram Kahrobaei (City University of New York) took place this weekend, as part of the huge American Mathematical Society Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting held at Hunter College, City University of New York.

The idea behind the special session was to bring together three areas of infinite group theory that share a powerful tool: the analysis of group structure through an action on a locally finite graph. Subdegree-finite permutation groups act on an orbital graph, finitely generated groups act on a Cayley graph, and compactly generated totally disconnected locally compact groups act on a Cayley–Abels graph.

In the Special Session there were speakers from across the world: USA, Australia, Europe and South America. The talks were excellent. James Maynard (University of Oxford) gave the prestigious Erdös Memorial Lecture to the entire Sectional Meeting, where he spoke about his work on finding large gaps in the prime numbers.

List of speakers in the Special Session

Joaquín Brum, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay
Vladimir Shpilrain, The City College of New York, USA
Phillip Wesolek, Binghamton University, USA
Benjamin Steinberg, City College of New York, USA
Luke Morgan, University of Western Australia, Australia
Lisa Carbone, Rutgers University, USA
Catherine E Pfaff, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Cheng Chang, Mercy College, USA
Juan Alonso, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay
Daniela B Nikolova-Popova, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Zoran Sunic, Texas A&M University, USA
Keivan Mallahi-Karai, Jacobs University, Germany
Yago Antolin, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Rögnvaldur G. Möller, Science Institute, University of Iceland
Matias Carrasco, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay
James B Wilson, Colorado State University, USA
Dmytro M Savchuk, University of South Florida, USA
Gerhard Rosenberger, University of Hamburg, Germany
Cristóbal Rivas, Universidad de Santiago de Chile
Benjamin Fine, Fairfield University, USA