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Journal
Volume 54 (2008)
Issue 1-2 _
Table of Contents 1
Preface: Guido's Book of Conjectures : collected by Indira Chatterji 3
Table of Contents 5
Article: On cohomology algebras 7
Article: A vanishing conjecture for the homology of congruence subgroups 9
Article: The uniform Kazhdan property for SLn(Z), n≥3 11
Article: The chromatic red-shift in algebraic K-theory 13
Article: Property (T) versus property FW 16
Article: Automatic permutations 19
Article: Two problems concerning polycyclic spaces 21
Article: The extended quotient 23
Article: Groups with the same lower central sequences 27
Article: The regularity conjecture in the cohomology of groups 29
Article: Questions of amenability 32
Article: The Whitehead conjecture and L²-Betti-numbers 35
Article: The Σ^n-conjecture for metabelian groups 38
Article: The poset of elementary abelian subgroups of rank at least 2 41
Article: Putative relation gaps 46
Article: Property A and exactness of the uniform Roe algebra 50
Article: Volumes of ideal simplices in Hilbert's geometry and symmetric spaces 53
Article: Bounds for cohomology classes 56
Article: Periodic p-torsion in the Farrell cohomology of some symplectic groups 59
Article: An FPm-conjecture for nilpotent-by-abelian groups 62
Article: Postnikov pieces of finite dimension 65
Article: Cohomological finiteness conditions : spaces versus H-spaces 68
Article: Automorphism groups of right-angled Artin groups 71
Article: Planar 2-cocycles of finite groups 73
Article: The homotopy exponent conjecture of p-completed classifying spaces of finite groups 75
Article: Isomorphism conjectures for the mapping class group 78
Article: The Hopf conjecture and the Singer conjecture 80
Article: Rigidity and reliability for H3(PSL(2, C)^δ ; Z) 83
Article: The Singer conjecture 86
Article: Nine problems about (co)-localization 89
Article: The Smith filtration on the universal principal bundle of a Coxeter group 92
Article: The Friedlander-Milnor conjecture 94
Article: The fundamental group at infinity 97
Article: Metastable embedding, 2-equivalence and generic rigidity of flag manifolds 100
Article: Self-similar contracting groups 103
Article: The genus of a group 106
Article: Piecewise isometries of hyperbolic surfaces 108
Article: Exotic classes in the mod 2 cohomology of GLn (Z [½]) 111
Article: A conjecture in number theory 113
Article: Simplicial nonpositive curvature 115
Article: Cohomology of pure automorphism groups of free products of finite groups 118
Article: Alperin's weight conjecture 120
Article: Relative completions of linear groups 123
Article: Outer automorphisms of order 3 of Lie algebra of type D4 126
Article: Classifying spaces for proper actions 129
Article: Construction of classifying spaces with isotropy in prescribed families of subgroups 131
Article: Isoperimetric inequalities and the asymptotic geometry of Hadamard spaces 135
Article: Proper actions on acyclic spaces 138
Article: l^p-homology of one-relator groups 141
Article: The Farrell-Jones Conjecture in algebraic K- and L-theory 144
Article: Soluble groups of type VF 146
Article: Residually nilpotent group 149
Article: The Kropholler conjecture 151
Article: K0 and the passage from integral to rational coefficients 154
Article: The Dehn function of SLn(Z) 156
Article: Two CAT(0) group questions 159
Article: Homotopy invariance of almost flat Betti numbers 162
Article: Blocking light in compact Riemannian manifolds 165
Article: Power series that generate class numbers 168
Article: Conjectures on finite and p-local groups 171
Article: On algebraic characterizations for the finiteness of the dimension of EG 177
Article: Short exact sequence and A-T-menability 180
Article: A realization problem 182
Article: Final values of functors 184
Article: Finiteness properties of function-field-arithmetic groups 187
Afterword 189
Rubric: Commission internationale de l'enseignement mathématique = The international commission on mathematical instruction 191
Article: La CIEM en pleine transition majeure 191
Article: Discussion document for the nineteenth ICMI Study : proof and proving in mathematics education 199
Rubric: Bulletin bibliographique 1
Issue 3-4 213
Article: Formal and rigid geometry : an intuitive introduction and some applications 213
Bibliography 247
Article: Groups of intermediate growth : an introduction 251
Bibliography 272
Article: The spine that was no spine 273
Bibliography 285
Article: A note on the connectivity of certain complexes associated to surfaces 287
Bibliography 300
Article: Competing prime asymptotic densities in Fq [X] : a discussion 303
Bibliography 326
Article: Normal surfaces in topologically finite 3-manifolds 329
Bibliography 379
Article: Infinite topology of curve complexes and non-Poincaré duality of Teichmüller modular groups 381
Bibliography 394
Article: Addenda à l'article intitulé "Topologie des systoles unidimensionnelles" 396
Rubric: Commission internationale de l'enseignement mathématique = The international commission on mathematical instruction 398
Article: The 2007 ICMI Awards : Felix Klein and Hans Freudenthal medals 398
Article: 1908 - 2008 : Centenario della Commissione Internazionale dell'insegnamento matematico 403
Article: 1908 - 2008 : One hundred years the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction 405
Article: 1908 - 2008 : Le centenaire de la Commission Internationale de l'Enseignement Mathématique 406
Article: 1908 - 2008 : Zum hundertjährigen Jubiläum der Internationalen Mathematischen Unterrichtskommission 408