Extended Abstracts Fall 2012

Preface.- Foreword.- Yago Antolín: Tits alternatives for graph products.- Goulnara Arzhantseva: Asymptotic approximations of finitely generated groups.- Oleg Bogopolski and Olga Maslakova: An efficient algorithm for finding a basis of the fixed point subgroup of an automorphism of a free group.- José Burillo and Eric López Platón: Metric properties and distortion in nilpotent groups.- Jack Button, Maurice Chiodo, and Mariano Zeron-Medina Laris: Coset intersection graphs, and transversals as generating sets for finitely generated groups.- Jordi Delgado: Whitehead problems for words in Zm x Fn.- Gustavo A. Fernández-Alcober, Olivier Siegenthaler, and Amaia Zugadi-Reizabal: Hausdorff dimension and the abelian group structure of some groups acting on the p-adic tree.- Ariadna Fossas: Thompson's group T, undistorted free groups and automorphisms of the flip graph.- Juan González-Meneses: Geometric techniques in braid groups.- Vincent Guirardel and Gilbert Levitt: Induced automorphisms.- Fedaa Ibrahim and Martin Lustig: Dual automorphisms of free groups.- Thomas Koberda and Johanna Mangahas: Effective algebraic detection of the Nielsen-Thurston classification of mapping classes.- Martin Lustig: Tree-irreducible automorphisms of free groups.- Luis Paris: Presentations for the mapping class groups of nonorientable surfaces.- Catherine Pfaff: Ideal Whitehead graphs in Out(Fr).- Paul Schupp: Reflections on computer experiments with automorphisms of free groups.- Enric Ventura: Orbit decidability, applications and variations.