Course on Group Cohomology and Bieri-Strebel-Neumann-Renz Invariants

September 29 - November 24*

Mondays and Wednesdays 16:00-18:00 CET on ZOOM

This course is offered in the framework of the 2021 BCAM Severo Ochoa courses and is given by Conchita Martínez Pérez

The inaugural lecture was given by Peter Kropholler.

Invited lectures by Oihana Garaialde, Dawid Kielak, Ian Leary, Luis Mendonça, Brita Nucinkis and Matt Zaremsky.

Part 1

Course Sessions: September 29; October 4, 6 11, 13, 18.

Invited lectures:

  • Brita Nucinkis ``On cohomological Mackey functors for totally disconnected locally compact groups''; Monday, October 25th, 16:00 CET

  • Ian Leary ``Introduction to Bestvina-Brady groups''; Monday, October 25th, 17:00 CET

  • Oihana Garaialde ``Cohomology of finite groups''; Wednesday, October 27th, 17:00 CET

Part 2

Course Sessions: November 3, 8, 10, 17, 22, 24.

Invited lectures:

  • Matt Zaremsky ``The BNSR-invariants of Thompson's group F and some relatives''; Monday, November 29th, 15:00 CET

  • Luis Mendonça ``BNSR invariants via (sub)normal subgroups''; Monday, November 29th, 16:00 CET

  • Dawid Kielak ``Polytopes, BNS invariants, and RFRS groups''; Wednesday, December 1st, 16:00 CET

Part 1

Course Sessions

Lecture 1 by Conchita Martínez Pérez (September 29, 2021)

Lecture 2 by Conchita Martínez Pérez (October 4, 2021)

Lecture 3 by Conchita Martínez Pérez (October 6, 2021)

Lecture 4 by Conchita Martínez Pérez (October 11, 2021)

Lecture 5 by Conchita Martínez Pérez (October 13, 2021)

Lecture 6 by Conchita Martínez Pérez (October 18, 2021)

Invited lectures

Inaugural lecture by Peter Kropholler (September 29, 2021)

Invited lecture by Brita Nucinkis ``On cohomological Mackey functors for totally disconnected locally compact groups'' (October 25, 2021)

Invited lecture by Ian Leary ``Introduction to Bestvina-Brady groups'' (October 25, 2021)

Invited lecture by Oihana Garialde ``Cohomology of finite groups'' (October 27, 2021)

Part 2

Course Sessions

Lecture 7 by Conchita Martínez Pérez (November 3, 2021)

Lecture 8 by Conchita Martínez Pérez (November 8, 2021)

Lecture 9 by Conchita Martínez Pérez (November 10, 2021)

Lecture 10 by Conchita Martínez Pérez (November 17, 2021)

Lecture 11 by Conchita Martínez Pérez (November 22, 2021)

Lecture 12 by Conchita Martínez Pérez (November 24, 2021)

Invited lectures

Matt Zaremsky ``The BNSR-invariants of Thompson's group F and some relatives'' (November 29, 2021)

Invited lecture by Luis Mendonça ``BNSR invariants via (sub)normal subgroups'' (November 29, 2021)

Invited lecture by Dawid Kielak ``Polytopes, BNS invariants, and RFRS groups'' (December 1, 2021)