New trends in self-similarity of groups,

trees and fractals

AMS-UMI international joint meeting

Special session A19

23-24 July 2024

Palermo (Italy)

Self-similarity plays an important role in group theory, particularly in many major developments around growth, amenability and torsion. These groups are naturally fractal in nature, the Grigorchuk group being a guiding example. There has been a number of developments in this area in recent years, including some recent breakthroughs in difficult open questions. Nevertheless, many important questions remain unresolved. As current knowledge and techniques have become vast, the goal of this session is to bring together the leading researchers in the area to share ideas and spawn new creative endeavors. 

Speakers:

1. Daniele D’Angeli (Università Cusano, Italy) 

2. Gustavo A. Fernández Alcober (University of the Basque Country, Spain)

3. Mikel E. Garciarena  (Università di Salerno & University of the Basque Country)

4. Letizia Issini (University of Geneve, Switzerland)

5. Davide Perego (University of Seville, Spain)

6. Emanuele Rodaro (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

7. Dima Savchuk (University of South Florida, U.S.)

8. Zoran Sunik (Hofstra University, U.S.)

9. Matteo Tarocchi (Università di Milano-Bicocca, Italy)

10. Anitha Thillasundarum (University of Lund, Sweden)

11. Jone Uria Albizuri (University of the Basque Country, Spain)

12. Matteo Vannacci (University of the Basque Country, Spain)

Organizers:

• Dominik Francoeur

• Marialaura Noce

• Rachel Skipper