Geometric Group Theory

Abstract

1. Group actions and Riemann surfaces 2. The virtual cohomological dimension of Coxeter groups 3. The geometric invariants of a group - a survey with emphasis on the homological approach 4. String rewriting - a survey for group theorists 5. One-relator products with high powered relators 6. An inaccessible group 7. Isoperimetric and isodiametric functions - a survey 8. On Hilbert's metric for simplices 9. Software for axiomatic groups, isomorphism testing and finitely presented groups 10. Proving certain groups infinite 11. Some applications of small cancellation theory to one-relator groups and one-relator products 12. A group theoretic proof of the torus theorem 13. N-torsion and applications 14. Surface groups and quasi-convexity 15. Constructing group actions on trees 16. Brick's quasi-simple filtrations for groups and 3-manifolds 17. A note an accessibility 18. Geometric group theory 1991 problem list.