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Braid meeting 2022 :
Generalized braid groups

Meeting of the GDR tresses

Amiens, from the 29th of August to the 2nd of September 2022

Organisation comitee : Owen Garnier, Ivan Marin, Karine Sorlin, Alexis Virelizier, Emmanuel Wagner.

Scientific comitee : François Dahmani, Paolo Ghiggini, Ivan Marin, Gwenaël Massuyeau, Luisa Paoluzzi.

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Presentation :

This international conference is the annual meeting of the french research community on braids ("GDR tresses"). It will take place over 5 days, from the 29th of August to the 2nd of September 2022, at the UFR des sciences of the Université de Picardie Jules Verne in Amiens.
It will include two mini-courses of three hours each, plenary presentations, as well as 30 minute talk proposed by participants, and selected by the scientific comitee.

This year the focus is on generalized braid groups, without excluding the others themes of the GDR tresses.

Mini-courses:

Plenary speakers:

Eddy Godelle (Université de Caen) « Garside categories » Olivier Dudas (CNRS - Université de Paris Cité) « Complex reflection groups »

Adrien Brochier (Université de Paris Cité) « Surface braid groups and skein categories » María Cumplido (Universidad de Sevilla) « Conjugacy stability in Artin groups » Agnès Gadbled (Université Paris Saclay) « Categorical action of the braid group of the cylinder: symplectic aspect » Mario Salvetti (Università di Pisa) « On the K(π,1)-conjecture for Artin groups » Andrea Seppi (CNRS - Université Grenoble Alpes) « Examples of four-dimensional geometric transition »

Participants giving short talks:

Ilias Andreou	Vincent Beck	Henry Fallet	Owen Garnier	Juan González-Meneses
John Guaschi	Laura Marino	Neha Nanda	Georges Neaime	Mireille Soergel