Explore a 56-minute conference talk delivered by Jean-François Lafont from Ohio State University at the Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, focusing on cubulating groups obtained via strict hyperbolizations. Part of a broader conference on hyperbolic geometry and hyperbolic group theory, learn about recent developments in the field alongside presentations from 19 other distinguished speakers. The conference, organized in partnership with the Clay Mathematics Institute and NSF, covers topics ranging from hyperbolic manifolds and smooth structures to complex Morse theory and geometric group theory. Following the main conference, a workshop featuring three minicourses provides graduate students with in-depth introductions to exotic negatively curved manifolds, hyperbolic manifolds with Coxeter polytopes, and arithmetic hyperbolic manifolds.