Aspects of Geometric Group Theory
Marilyn and James Simons Conference Center
IHES
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Organizing/Scientific Committee: Emmanuel Breuillard (Univ. of Cambridge), Richard Canary (Univ. Michigan), Indira Chatterji (Univ. Nice-Sophia Antipolis), Fanny Kassel (CNRS-IHES)
The Summer school on "Aspects of Geometric Group Theory" will be held at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES) from 8 to 19 July 2019. IHES is located in Bures-sur-Yvette, south of Paris (40 minutes by train from Paris).
This school is open to everybody but intended primarily for young participants, including PhD students and postdoctoral fellows.
A group is a mathematical object encoding natural notions of symmetries and transformations. Geometric group theory is an area in mathematics devoted to the study of discrete groups by exploring connections between algebraic properties of such groups and topological and geometric properties of spaces on which these groups act.
As a distinct area, geometric group theory is relatively new, and became an identifiable branch of mathematics in the early 1990s. Geometric group theory closely interacts with low-dimensional topology, hyperbolic geometry, Lie groups and homogeneous spaces, algebraic topology, computational group theory, and differential geometry. There are also substantial connections with complexity theory, mathematical logic, dynamical systems, probability theory, K-theory, and other areas of mathematics.
Nowadays, geometric group theory is a very active and competitive area of research, as shown by the many conferences in the field but also several special programs such as an IHP program in 2014, a jumbo MSRI program in 2016 and a program at the Newton Institute in 2017 to name a few.
We will choose a few important trends in geometric group theory and teach those to graduate students across mathematical fields, so that young people in several areas of mathematics such as algebra, geometry, dynamics, or topology have some basics to either understand a few problems in geometric group theory, or use geometric group theory methods in their respective fields. Geometric group theory is a very broad area, and we will mainly focus on geometric aspects.
INVITED SPEAKERS:
So far the following people have agreed to give a mini-course:
- Yves Benoist (CNRS and Université Paris-Sud)
- Kai-Uwe Bux (Universität Bielefeld)
- Ruth Charney Brandeis University)
- François Dahmani (Université Grenoble Alpes)
- Anna Erschler (CNRS and ENS)
- François Guéritaud (CNRS and Université de Lille)
- Kathryn Mann (Brown University)
- Yair Minsky (Yale University)
- Karen Vogtmann (University of Warwick)
- Genevieve Walsh (Tufts University)
- Anna Wienhard (Universität Heidelberg)
- Daniel T. Wise (McGill University)
This is an IHES Summer School, organized in partnership with the Clay Mathematical Institute, and the support of the Société Générale, the FMJH, the IUF, the ANR GAMME, the project Jeunes Géomètres, the National Science Foundation and the ERC.
Adrien Abgrall
Alba Marina Málaga Sabogal
Alex Evetts
Alice Kerr
Alp Uzman
Amandine Escalier
Anschel Schaffer-Cohen
Bat-Od Battseren
Benjamin Brück
Benjamin Zarka
Biao Ma
Bogdan Stankov
Bruno Robbio
Carmen Galaz-Garcia
Chloé Papin
Christoph Hilmes
Christopher Ratigan
David Sheard
Diptaishik Choudhury
Eduard Schesler
Esmee te Winkel
Fernando Al Assal
Florestan Brunck
François Thilmany
Gabriel Pallier
George Domat
Han Liu
Hang Lu Su
Hanna Astephan
Hannah Hoganson
Harry Petyt
Ian Runnels
Ilia Smilga
Irene Pasquinelli
Islam Foniqi
Israel Morales Jimenez
Jacob Bamberger
Jean-Philippe Burelle
Jiawei Han
Joaquín Brum
Joe Scull
Jone Lopez de Gamiz Zearra
Jordan Frost
Karol Duda
Katie Vokes
Konstantinos Tsouvalas
Lam Pham
Laurent Dufloux
Leonardo Biz
Lorenzo Moreschini
Luca Sabatini
Luis Mendonça
Lukas Gohla
Macarena Covadonga Robles Arenas
Marco Barberis
Marco Linton
Martin Bobb
Matthieu Dussaule
Merlin Incerti-Medici
Michal Buran
Mitul Islam
Nathan Fisher
Neza Zager Korenjak
Nguyen-Thi Dang
Nikolaos Panagopoulos
Olivier Glorieux
Oussama Bensaid
Pallavi Panda
Panagiotis Tselekidis
Pierre-Louis Blayac
Pratyush Kumar Mishra
Qing Liu
Rachael Boyd
Robin Sroka
Rose Morris-Wright
Rylee Lyman
Sagar Balasaheb Kalane
Sami Douba
Samuel Dodds
Samuel Fisher
Simon Machado
Simon Roby
Soumya Dey
Suzanne Schlich
Suzhen Han
Swathi Krishna
Tal Horesh
Tattwamasi Amrutam
Theodore Weisman
Thomas Le Fils
Tom Ferragut
Tsung-Hsuan Tsai
Wenhao Wang
Xabier Legaspi Juanatey
Xiaofei Zhang
Xin Zhang
Yanis Amirou
Yongquan Zhang
Youri Tamitegama
Zachary Munro
Zhiqiang Xiao