Geometric Methods In Group Theory: Ams Special Session Geometric Group Theory, October 5-6, 2002, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts : ... First Joint Mee

In these papers from the special sessions of October 2002 and June 2003 contributors describe their work in both geometric group theory and geometric methods in group theory. The two survey articles cover properly 3-realizable groups and free actions on Zn-trees. Other topics include improving an algorithm to solve multiple simultaneous conjugacy problems in braid groups, singular Artin monoids, counting primitive elements of a free group, two articles examining Thompson's group F and another on group T, and definitions of relatively hyperbolic groups. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)