Geometric and Analytic Group Theory

Ventotene (LT), Italy, 9-14 September, 2013

The conference took place in Ventotene, Italy from the 9th until the 14th of September 2013.

 

The scope of the conference was to further the connections between analytic and geometric aspects of geometric group theory, by highlighting recent developments at the boundary between these topics.

Organizers

Alessandra Iozzi, ETHZ

Maria Gabriella Kuhn, Università di Milano Bicocca

Michah Sageev, Technion

Sponsors

We gratefully acknowledge the support of:

  • the Forschungsinstitute für Mathematik at ETH Zürich
  • the Zürich Graduate School in Mathematics
  • the European Research Council (Uri Bader & Nicolas Monod)
  • the Department of Mathematics of the Università di Milano Bicocca
  • the EGG chair at EPFL (Nicolas Monod)
  • the GNAMPA from the Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica
  • the PRIN from the Ministero dell'Istruzione Universitaria e della Ricerca

Program and schedule

There were research talks in addition to the following four minicourses:
  • Weyl group approach to rigidity, Uri Bader (Technion) and Alex Furman (UIC)
  • TBa, Nicolas Monod (EPFL)
  • Ergodic theory from amenable to non-amenable groups, Amos Nevo (Technion).  Here are the slides of the talks on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
  • CAT(0) cube complexes, Piotr Przytycki (Polish Academy of Sciences)

AFTERNOON SPEAKERS  (here are the abstracts)

 

  Menny Aka (EPFL)

  Matthias Blank (Universität Regensburg)

  Michelle Bucher (Université de Genève)

  Corina Ciobotanu (Université Libre de Louvain)

  Simion Filip (University of Chicago)

  Roberto Frigerio (Università di Pisa)

  Damien Gaboriau (CNRS- ENS Lyon)

  Yair Glasner (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)

  Antoine Gournay (Université de Neuchâtel)

  Slava Grigorchuk (Texas A&M University)

  Dominik Gruber (Universität Wien)

  Dennis Gulko (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)

  Yair Hartman (Weizmann Institute)

  Sang-Hyun Kim (KAIST)

  Ashot Minasyan (University of Southampton)

  Aglaia Myropolska (Université de Genève)

  Alexey Osipov (Università di Pisa)

  Felix Pogorzelski (Universität Jena)

  Roman Sauer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

  Anne Thomas (University of Glasgow)

 

Participants

  1. *Menny Aka (EPFL)
  2.   Goulnara Arzhantseva (Universität Wien)
  3.   Uri Bader (Technion, Haifa)
  4.   Federico Berlai (Universität Wien)
  5.   Tobias Berner (Universität Zürich)
  6.   Arindam Biswas (Ècole Polytechnique)
  7.   Michael Björklund (Chalmers/ETHZ)
  8. *Matthias Blank (Universität Regensburg)
  9.   Khalid Bou-Rabee (University of Minnesota)
  10.   Henry Bradford (University of Oxford)
  11.   Martin Bridson (University of Oxford)
  12. *Michelle Bucher (Université de Genève)
  13.   Marc Burger (ETHZ)
  14.   Claire Burrin (ETHZ)
  15.   Caterina Campagnolo (Université de Genève)
  16.   Ilaria Castellano (Università di Bari)
  17.   Christopher Cave (Southampton)
  18.   Paolo Ciatti (Università di Padova)
  19. *Corina Ciobotaru (Université Libre de Louvain)
  20.   François Dahmani (Institute Fourier, Grenoble)
  21.   Carlos de la Cruz Mengual (ETHZ)
  22.   Francesca Diana (Universität Regensburg)
  23. *Simion Filip (University of Chicago)
  24.   Vladimir Finkelstein (UI at Chicago)
  25.   Stefano Francaviglia (Università di Bologna)
  26.   Roberto Frigerio (Università di Pisa)
  27.   Alex Furman (UI Chicago)
  28. *Damien Gaboriau (CNRS- ENS Lyon)
  29.   Swiat Gal (University of Wroclaw)
  30.   Giovanni Gandini (University of Copenhagen)
  31.   Łukasz Garncarek (University of Wroclaw)
  32.   Maxime Gheysens (EPFL)
  33. *Yair Glasner (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
  34. *Antoine Gournay (Université de Neuchâtel)
  35.   Lukasz Grabowski (University of Oxford)
  36. *Slava Grigorchuk (Texas A&M University)
  37. *Dominik Gruber (Universität Wien)
  38. *Dennis Gulko (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
  39.   Mark Hagen (University of Michigan)
  40. *Yair Hartman (Weizmann Institute)
  41.   Tobias Hartnick (Technion, Haifa)
  42.   Maria Hempel (ETHZ)
  43.   Alessandra Iozzi (ETHZ)
  44.   Pierre-Nicolas Jolissaint (Université de Neuchâtel)
  45. *Kate Juschenko (Northwestern University)
  46. *Sang-Hyun Kim (KAIST)
  47.   Gabriella Kuhn (Università di Milano Bicocca)
  48.   Lisa Lamberti (ETHZ)
  49.   Nir Lazarovich (Technion, Haifa)
  50.   Waltraud Lederle (ETHZ)
  51.   Enrico Le Donne (Jyväskylän Yliopisto)
  52.   Paul-Henry Leeman (Université de Genève)
  53.   Andreas Leiser (ETHZ)
  54.   Arie Levit (Hebrew University)
  55.   Christian Lieb (ETHZ)
  56.   Gabriele Link (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
  57.   Alex Maier (ETHZ)
  58.   Michal Marcinkowski (University of Wroclaw)
  59.   Nicolás Matte Bon (ENS Paris)
  60.   Dustin Mayeda (University of California at Davis)
  61.   Benjamin Miesch (ETHZ)
  62. *Ashot Minasyan (University of Southampton)
  63.   Nicolas Monod (EPFL)
  64.   Shahar Mozes (Hebrew University)
  65.   Alexey Muranov (Université de Toulouse)
  66. *Aglaia Myropolska (Université de Genève)
  67.   Tatiana Nagnibeda (Université de Genève)
  68.   Amos Nevo (Technion, Haifa)
  69.   Graham Niblo (University of Southampton)
  70. *Alexey Osipov (Scuola Normale di Pisa -- Centro De Giorgi)
  71.   Cristina Pagliantini (ETHZ)
  72.   James Parkinson (University of Sidney)
  73.   William Pasini (Università di Milano Bicocca)
  74.   Hester Pieters (Université de Genève)
  75.   Thibault Pillon (Université de Neuchâtel)
  76. *Felix Pogorzelski (Universität Jena)
  77.   Beatrice Pozzetti (ETHZ)
  78.   Piotr Przytycki (Polish Academy of Sciences)
  79.   Miao Renlong (Universität Zürich)
  80.   Malte Röer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
  81.   Pascal Rolli (ETHZ)
  82.   Lorenzo Ruffoni (Università di Bologna)
  83.   Michah Sageev (Technion, Haifa)
  84.   Andrea Sambusetti (Università di Roma La Sapienza)
  85. *Roman Sauer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
  86.   Brandon Seward (University of Michigan)
  87.   Alessandro Sisto (ETHZ)
  88.   Tim Steger (Università di Sassari)
  89.   Chun-Yi (Jean) Sun (University of Oklahoma)
  90.   Alexey Talambutsa (Université de Genève)
  91.   Tommaso Terragni (Università di Milano Bicocca)
  92. *Anne Thomas (University of Glasgow)
  93.   Werner Thumann (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
  94.   Vera Tonic (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
  95.   Stephan Tornier (ETHZ)
  96.   Tetsu Toyoda (Suzuka National College of Technology)
  97.   Alain Valette (Université de Neuchâtel)
  98.   Wouter van Limbeek (University of Chicago)
  99.   Karen Vogtmann (Cornell University)
  100.   Thomas Weigel (Università di Milano Bicocca)
  101.   Philip Wirth (ETHZ)
  102.   Kevin Wortman (University of Utah)

 

 

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