Department of Mathematics, EHU
This is the page for the Reading Group of the "Groups, Topology and Applications" research group at the University of the Basque Country (EHU).
The seminars of the Reading Group consist of weekly talks on a selected topic, typically running over the course of a season of the year.
There is currently no active topic
Sofic groups
Mapping class groups of surfaces and 3-manifolds
Winter 2020 (Sofic Groups)
The topic for the Reading Group for Winter 2020 is Sofic Groups. You can find the programme here.
Organised by Matteo Vannacci.
Schedule:
Feb 03 Elena Di Domenico, "Residually finite groups".
Feb 10 Lander Guerrero-Sánchez, "Amenable Groups".
Feb 17 Andoni Zozaya, "LEF, LEA and Sofic Groups".
Feb 24 Matteo Pintonello, "Marked Groups".
Mar 02 Federico Berlai, "Further Closure Properties".
Mar 09 Bruno Robbio, "Metric Ultraproducts".
CANCELLED DUE TO PANDEMIC
Autumn 2019 (Subgroup Growth)
The topic until Christmas will be Subgroup Growth from the homonymous book by Lubotzky and Segal. You can find the programme here.
Organised by Matteo Vannacci.
Schedule:
Oct 08 Matteo Vannacci, "Free Profinite Groups and Profinite presentations".
Oct 15 Doryan Temmerman, "Subgroup Growth of Free Groups".
Oct 22 Andoni Zozaya, "Counting d-generated Finite Groups".
Nov 05 Iker de las Heras, "Pro-p Groups of Slow Subgroup Growth".
Nov 12 Jon González-Sánchez, "Gap Theorem for Pro-p Groups".
Nov 19 Josu Sangroniz, "The Groups SL_r^1(F_p((t)))".
Nov 26 Matteo Vannacci, "Golod-Shafarevic Pro-p Groups".
Dec 03 Oihana Garayalde, "Probabilistic Methods".
Dec 10 Matteo Pintonello, "The Growth Spectrum".
Dec 17 Federico Berlai, "Growth of Surface Groups".