Lectures notes of talks given at the

Workshop on Topological Methods in Group Theory

held at

Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai

during 15th to 27th July 2002.

• A.R.Aithal, Poincar\'e ball model.
• S.Deo, The flat torus theorem.
• S.Gadgil, delta-hyperbolic spaces.
• S.Gadgil, A topological characterization of hyperbolic groups (following Bowditch)
• A.Mukherjee, Gromov invariant and hyperbolic volume.
• H.K.Mukherjee, CAT-k spaces.
• K.Paranjape, Symmetric spaces.
• S.K.Roushon, Cartan-Hadamard Theorem.

• P.Sankaran, Dendrology of groups.
• A.R.Shastri, Hyperbolic groups, pages 1-18, pages 19-38
• G.A.Swarup, Canonical decompositions of finitely presented groups.
• G.A.Swarup, Topological and geometric methods in group theory.