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  This is a list of conferences and seminars related to group theory. If you are aware of a meeting of interest to group theorists, or a meeting of general interest, please send us e-mail.

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2026
Group Actions in Dynamics (GAGTA 2026), June 1-5, 2026, New York


2025
Model Theory Meets Geometric Group Theory, February 3-7, 2025, Munster, Germany

Groups in Geometry, Analysis, and Logic, May 28 -- June 1, 2025, Vanderbilt University, TN

Groups, Logic, and Computation (GAGTA 2025), June 9-12, 2025, Stevens Institute of Technology

Non-positive curvature and applications, July 7-18, 2025, Cambridge, U.K.

Automorphisms and Identities of Algebras, September 8-12, 2025, Astana, Kazakhstan


2024
Geometric and Asymptotic Group Theory with Applications (GAGTA), February 5-9, 2024, Luminy, France

Ischia Group Theory Conference, April 8-12, 2024, Ischia, Italy

Groups, Logic, and Computation, June 12--14, 2024, Stevens Institute of Technology

Modern Methods in Infinite Groups, June 12--14, 2024, Bristol, U.K.

New perspectives in Computational Group Theory, June 24-26, 2024, Warwick, U.K.

Theoretical and Computational Algebra, July 1-5, 2024, Aveiro, Portugal

Post-quantum algebraic cryptography, September 6 - December 10, 2024, IHP, Paris

Algebra Day on the Hudson, December 7, 2024, Stevens Institute of Technology


2023
Thematic program on Geometric Group Theory, January 1 - June 30, 2023, CRM, Montreal

Groups and Computation (R. Gilman's 80th Birthday Conference), June 14-16, 2023, Stevens Institute of Technology

Geometric and Asymptotic Group Theory with Applications (GAGTA), July 17-21, 2023, Vienna, Austria

Groups, Actions, and Geometries, August 7-11, 2023, Tufts University, Boston

Groups of Thompson and their relatives, September 18-22, 2023, Magdeburg, Germany


2022
Groups Acting on Fractals, Hyperbolicity and Self-similarity, April 11 - July 8, 2022, IHP, Paris

Ischia group theory, June 20-25, 2022, Ischia (Naples, Italy)

Geometric and Asymptotic Group Theory with Applications (GAGTA), June 29 - July 3, 2022, Hoboken, NJ

Equations in Groups and Complexity, July 18-22, 2022, Newcastle, U.K.

Modern Group Theory and Related Subjects, June 30 - July 4, 2022, Moscow, Russia


2021
Groups and Dynamics in Geometry, July 18-23, 2021, Ascona, Switzerland

Geometry in non-positive curvature and Kähler groups, Aug. 30 -- Sept. 1, 2021, IHES, France

Braids and beyond (in memory of Patrick Dehornoy), September 8-10, 2021


2020
Ischia Group Theory, March 30 - April 4, 2020, Ischia, Italy

Topological and Homological Methods in Group Theory, March 30 - April 3, 2020, Bielefeld, Germany

Finite and Residually Finite Groups, May 27-30, 2020, Bilbao, Spain

Zassenhaus Groups and Friends Conference, May 29-31, 2020, Hofstra University, NY

Groups, Random Walks, and Dynamics, June 15-18, 2020, Paris

Geometric and Asymptotic Group Theory with Applications (GAGTA), June 22-26, 2020, Edinburgh, U.K.

Workshop on Combinatorial and Geometric Group Theory, August 3-7, 2020, Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Braids and beyond (in memory of Patrick Dehornoy), September 9-11, 2020, Caen, France


2019
Geometric and Asymptotic Group Theory with Applications (GAGTA), May 26-30, 2019, Bar Ilan, Israel

Zassenhaus Groups and Friends Conference, May 31 - June 02, 2019, Binghamton, NY

Workshop on Groups and Group Rings, June 3-8, 2019, St. Petersburg, Russia

Quasi-isometries and groups: rigidity and classification, September 9-14, Ventotene, Italy

AMS Special Session on `What's New in Group Theory?', October 12-13, 2019, Binghamton, NY


2018
Zassenhaus Groups and Friends Conference, April 6-8, 2018, Tampa, Florida

Geometric and Asymptotic Group Theory with Applications (GAGTA-12), July 16 - 20, 2018, Seoul, Korea

Group Theory, July 23 – 27, 2018, Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Geometric Group Theory in Campinas, July 28 - 31, 2018, São Paulo, Brazil

Groups, Geometry and Representations, September 3-7, 2018, Oxford, U.K.

The elementary theory of groups and group rings and related topics, November 1-2, 2018, Fairfield, CT and New York


2017
Workshop on Group Theory (Arye Juhasz’ 70th Birthday), January 4-6, 2017, Haifa, Israel

2017 Program for Women and Mathematics, May 15-26, 2017, Institute for Advance Studies, Princeton

Groups in Galway 2017, May 18-20, 2017, Galway

Groups and computation (dedicated to 80th birthday of Paul Schupp), June 26-30, 2017, Hoboken, NJ

Geometric and Asymptotic Group Theory with Applications (GAGTA-11), July 3-7, 2017, Bilbao, Spain

Computations in Groups and Applications, July 23-28, 2017, Montreal, Canada


2016
Geometry and Computation on Groups and Complexes, June 6-10, 2016, Newcastle, U.K.

Geometric and Asymptotic Group Theory with Applications (GAGTA-10), June 13-17, 2016, Hoboken, NJ

Groups and Rings - Theory and Applications (GRiTA2016), July 11-15, 2016, Sofia, Bulgaria

Computation in geometric and combinatorial group theory, July 11-15, 2016, Edinburgh, U.K.

Semester program in Geometric Group Theory, Fall 2016, MSRI, Berkeley


2015
AMS Special Session on Groups, Algorithms, and Cryptography, January 10-11, 2015, San Antonio, TX

Infinite Group Theory: From the Past to the Future, April 23-24, Fairfield, CT and New York

Growth, Symbolic Dynamics and Combinatorics of Words in Groups, June 1-5, 2015, Paris

Workshop on Groups and Semigroups, June 9, 2015, Porto, Portugal

Geometric Group Theory, June 29 - July 3, 2015, Wroclaw, Poland

Geometric and Asymptotic Group Theory with Applications (GAGTA-9), September 14-18, 2015, Luminy, France

Geometric and probabilistic methods in group theory and dynamical systems, November 9-12, 2015, College Station, TX


2014
IHP trimester on Random Walks and Asymptotic Geometry of Groups, January - March 2014

Geometry of computation in groups, Vienna, March 31 - April 13, 2014

Growth In Groups, Neuchatel, Switzerland, June 24-27, 2014

Geometric and Asymptotic Group Theory with Applications (GAGTA 8), Newcastle, Australia, July 21-25, 2014

ICM Satellite Conference on Geometry on Groups and Spaces, Daejeon, Korea, August 7 – 12, 2014


2013
AMS Special Session on Algorithmic Problems of Group Theory and Their Complexity, Joint Mathematics Meeting, San Diego, CA, January 9-10, 2013

Special Session on Algorithmic Problems of Group Theory and Applications to Information Security, Boston College, April 6-7, 2013

Workshop on Questions, Algorithms, and Computations in Abstract Group Theory, Braunschweig, Germany, May 21-24, 2013

Geometric and Asymptotic Group Theory with Applications (GAGTA 7), New York, May 28-31, 2013

Geometric Group Theory, Kyoto University, Japan, July 16-19, 2013

Groups St. Andrews, St. Andrews, U. K., August 3-11, 2013

The 11th KAIST Geometric Topology Fair, Jeonju, Korea, August 12 – 16, 2013

Geometric and Analytic Group Theory, Ventotene, Italy, September 9-14, 2013

CMS winter meeting, Special sessions on Groups and Algorithms,   Geometric Group Theory and Low Dimensional Topology,   Random Walks and Geometry. Ottawa, Canada, December 6-9, 2013


2012
AMS Special Session on Groups, Algorithms, Complexity, and Theory of Security, Boston, January 4-5, 2012

A conference in honor of the 75th birthday of Bernd Fischer, Bielefeld, March 12-16, 2012

Ischia group theory, March 26-29, 2012

Geometric Group Theory on the Gulf Coast, Pensacola Beach, Florida, April 5-8, 2012

50th Cornell Topology Festival, Cornell University, May 4–7, 2012

Geometric and Combinatorial Group Theory, Düsseldorf University, Germany, July 26 - August 4, 2012

Group Theory on the Hudson in honor of Robert Gilman, Stevens Institute of Technology and Hunter College (CUNY), September 21-22, 2012

Fall 2012 special semester: ``Automorphisms of Free Groups: algorithms, geometry and dynamics", CRM, Barcelona

Manhattan Algebra Day, CUNY Graduate Center, December 7, 2012


2011
AMS Joint Mathematics meeting, Special Session on Groups, Geometry, and Applications, New Orleans, LA, January 6-9, 2011

Finitely Presented Solvable Groups, The City College of New York, March 17–18, 2011

Geometric Group Theory on the Gulf Coast, Panama City, Florida, March 24-27, 2011

AMS meeting, Special Session on Computer Algebra, Group and Applications, Las Vegas, NV, April 30- May 1, 2011

Conference on Algebra and Applications (in honor of Said Sidki), Caldas Novas, Brazil, May 8-12, 2011

Discrete Groups and Geometric Structures, with Applications, Oostende (Belgian Coast), May 30 - June 2, 2011

Faces of Geometry (in honor of Walter Neumann), June 6-10, 2011

Geometric Group Theory, Haifa, Israel, June 15-22, 2011

Geometric Group Theory, Bristol, U.K., June 20-24, 2011

Recent advances in Geometric Group Theory, Southampton, U.K., June 29 - July 1, 2011

Geometric and Asymptotic Group Theory with Applications (GAGTA-5), Manresa (Barcelona), July 11-15, 2011

Infinite monster groups, Erwin Schrödinger International Institute, Vienna, December 12-21, 2011

Manhattan Algebra Day, CUNY Graduate Center, December 9, 2011


2010
Combinatorics, Groups, Algorithms, and Complexity in honor of Laci Babai's 60th birthday, Columbus, Ohio, March 21-25, 2010

Ischia Group Theory, Ischia (Naples, Italy), April 14-17, 2010

AMS meeting, Special Session on Groups, Computations, and Applications, Newark, NJ, May 22-23, 2010

Geometric Group Theory in honor of Karen Vogtmann, Luminy, France, June 21-25, 2010

Fall 2010 special semester ``Geometric, combinatorial and computational group theory", CRM, Montreal

Approaches to Group Theory, Cornell University, October 9–11, 2010


2009
Probability and Geometry on Groups, University of Paris XI, January 5-8, 2009

Geometric and Asymptotic Group Theory with Applications, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, March 9-12, 2009

Group Theory, Number Theory and Geometry (on the occasion of Fritz Grunewald's 60th Birthday), Oxford, U.K., March 30 - April 3, 2009

Workshop on Representations and Asymptotic Group Theory, Southampton, U.K., April 6-7, 2009

Geometric and Combinatorial Methods in Group Theory and Semigroup Theory, Lincoln, NE, May 17-21, 2009

Geometric Group Theory, Bedlewo, Poland, June 14-20, 2009

Groups St. Andrews 2009 in Bath, U.K., August 1-15, 2009

Finitely Presented Groups: Where do we go from here, The City College of New York, October 1-2, 2009

Manhattan Algebra Day, CUNY Graduate Center, December 4, 2009

New directions in geometric group theory, Brisbane, Australia, December 14-18, 2009


2008
Groups generated by Automata, Ascona, Switzerland, February 10-14, 2008

Geometric Group Theory on the Gulf Coast, Pensacola Beach, Florida, March 20-23, 2008

Ischia Group Theory, Ischia (Napoli-Italy), April 2 - 4, 2008

Open Problems in Group Theory, The City College of New York, April 18, 2008

Interdisciplinary Research in Logic, Group Theory, and Theoretical Computer Science, New York City College of Technology, May 2, 2008

Discrete Groups and Geometric Structures, with Applications, Kortrijk, Belgium, May 26 - 30, 2008

International algebraic conference (Dedicated to the memory of A. G. Kurosh), Moscow, May 28 - June 3, 2008

Groups and Infinite Graphs, Vienna, Austria, August 25-27, 2008

Non Positive Curvature and the Elementary Theory of Free Groups, Crete, June 9-12, 2008

The Isoperimetric Inequality for SL(n, Z), American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto, September 8-12, 2008

Braids in Paris, September 17-20, 2008

Combinatorial and geometric group theory (in honor of Ben Fine), Fairfield University, October 10, 2008

Residually free week at McGill, Montreal, November 3-7, 2008


2007
Geometric linearization of graphs and groups, Lausanne, Switzerland, January 22-26, 2007

Special semester on Amenability, Erwin Schrödinger Insitute, Vienna, February - July 2007

Geometric group theory month, Luminy, France, February 5 - March 2, 2007

Aspects of infinite group theory, Fairfield, CT, March 10, 2007

Recent Progress in Combinatorics on Words, CRM, Montreal, March 12-16, 2007

Armenian Algebra and Geometry Conference, Yerevan, Armenia, May 16-21, 2007

Cornell Topology Festival, May 21–24, 2007

Groups and their actions, Bedlewo, Poland, July 1-7, 2007

Generic Case Complexity, American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto, CA, August 12-17, 2007

Combinatorial and Geometric Group Theory with Applications, University of Dortmund, Germany, August 27-31, 2007

Group Theory: Generations (Dedicated to the memory of Wilhelm Magnus), The City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center, September 28-29, 2007

Dichotomy Amenable/Nonamenable in Combinatorial Group Theory, American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto, CA, October 8-12, 2007

Fields Workshop in Asymptotic Group Theory and Cryptography, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, December 14-16, 2007

Geometric group theory, semester-long program at MSRI, Berkeley, August 20 to December 14, 2007


2006
Geometric Group Theory on the Gulf Coast, Mobile, AL, March 16-19, 2006

Group Theory conference in honor of Akbar Rhemtulla, Ischia (Naples, Italy), March 29 - April 1, 2006

Combinatorial and geometric group theory. In honor of Alexander Olshanskii, Vanderbilt University, May 5-10, 2006

Computation and Complexity, The City College of New York, May 12, 2006

Asymptotic Group Theory. In honor of Avinoam Mann, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, May 14-19, 2006

Geometric Group Theory, CRM, Montreal, July 3-14, 2006

International Congress of Mathematicians, Madrid, Spain, August 22-30, 2006

Geometric and Asymptotic Group Theory with Applications, Manresa (Barcelona), Spain, August 31 - September 4, 2006

Groups in Geometry and Topology, Málaga, Spain, September 4-8, 2006

Various Faces of Cryptography, The City College of New York, November 10, 2006


2005
Braids, links, and mapping class groups, Columbia University, March 17-20, 2005

Algorithmic Algebra and Logic, Passau, Germany, April 3-8, 2005

Discrete Groups and Geometric Structures, Ostend, Belgium, May 31 - June 3, 2005

Groups and Group Rings, Bedlewo, Poland, June 4-11, 2005

Geometric and Asymptotic Methods in Group Theory, Banff International Research Station, June 11-16, 2005

Joint International Meeting of the AMS with the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung, Special Sessions on Algebraic Cryptography, on Group Theory, and on Geometric Topology and Group Theory, Mainz, Germany, June 16-19, 2005

Asymptotic and Probabilistic Methods in Geometric Group Theory, University of Geneva, Switzerland, June 20-25, 2005

Barcelona Conference on Geometric Group Theory, CRM, Barcelona, June 28 - July 2, 2005

International Conference on Semigroups and Languages, Lisbon, Portugal, July 12-15, 2005

Groups St. Andrews 2005, University of St. Andrews, U.K., July 30 - August 6, 2005

Workshop on Profinite Groups with Applications, Carleton University, Ottawa, August 8-11, 2005

International Algebraic Conference, Ekaterinburg, Russia, August 29 to September 3, 2005

AMS Eastern Section Meeting, Special Sessions on Geometric Group Theory and on Infinite Groups, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, October 8-9, 2005

Geometric and Probabilistic Methods in Group Theory and Dynamical Systems, College Station, TX, November 3-6, 2005

One-day conference on Asymptotic Group Theory, The City College of New York, November 11, 2005

Workshop on Algebraic Methods in Cryptography, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, November 17-18, 2005


2004
Thompson's group at 40 years, Palo Alto, CA, January 11-14, 2004

Geometric Group Theory on the Gulf Coast, Mobile, AL, February 5-8, 2004

Workshop on Algebraic Methods in Cryptography, Dortmund, March 11-12, 2004

International conference on Group Theory, Naples, Italy, March 31 - April 3, 2004

Geometric Group Theory, Bedlewo, Poland, April 18-24, 2004

International Algebraic Conference, Moscow, Russia, May 26 - June 2, 2004

Geometric Group Theory, Random Walks and Harmonic Analysis, Cortona, Italy, June 13-18, 2004

Workshop on Geometric Group Theory, Newcastle, U.K., June 29 - July 1, 2004

International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC-2004), Santander, Spain, July 4-7, 2004

Advanced Course on Automata Groups, Barcelona, July 5-16, 2004

CBMS Conference on Non-Positive Curvature in Group Theory, Albany, August 15-20, 2004

Albany Group Theory Conference, October 8-10, 2004

Braid Groups and Applications, Banff International Research Station, Canada, October 16-21, 2004

Geometric Group Theory on the Gulf Coast, Pensacola Beach, FL, November 11-14, 2004

Combinatorial Group Theory, Fairfield, CT, December 9-10, 2004

Winter meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society, Montreal, December 11-13, 2004. Special Sessions on Geometric Group Theory, on Interactions between Algebra and Computer Science, and on Groups, Equations, and Non-commutative Algebraic Geometry.