Groups, Languages, and Random Walks

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Organizing Committee

• Tullio Ceccherini-Silberstein (Università del Sannio, Benevento, Italy)

• Daniele D'Angeli (Università Niccolò Cusano, Italy)

• Maura Salvatori (Università di Milano, Italy)

• Ecaterina Sava-Huss (Universität Innsbruck, Austria)

Keynote speakers

• Emmanuel Breuillard (University of Oxford, UK)

• Anna Erschler* (École Normale Supérieure, Paris)

• Agelos Georgakopoulos** (University of Warwick, UK)

• Vadim Kaimanovich (Ottawa University, Canada)

• Tatiana Nagnibeda** (Université de Genève, Switzerland)

• Kilian Raschel (University of Tours, France)

• Laurent Saloff-Coste (Cornell University, USA)

• Vitali Wachtel (Universität Bielefeld, Germany)

*online talk ** preliminary confirmation

Invited speakers

• Laurent Bartholdi (Saarland University, Germany)

• Daniela Bertacchi (Universita' degli studi di Milano, Italy)

• Jérémie Brieussel (Université de Montpellier, France)

• Sara Brofferio (Université Paris Est Créteil, France)

• Matteo Cavaleri (Università Niccolò Cusano, Italy)

• Michel Coornaert (Université de Strasbourg, France)

• Wojciech Cygan (Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Poland)

• Adam Dor-On (Haifa University, Israel)

• Lorenz Gilch (Passau Universität, Germany)

• Rostislav Grigorchuk* (Texas A&M University, USA)

• Yair Hartman (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)

• Konrad Kolesko (Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Poland)

• Francois Ledrappier (University of Notre Dame, USA)

• Steve Lalley (University of Chicago, USA)

• Franz Lehner (TU Graz, Austria)

• Marc Peigné (University of Tours, France)

• Emanuele Rodaro (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

• Klaus Schmidt (Universität Wien, Austria)

• Jennifer Taback *(Bowdoin College, USA)

• Romain Tessera (Sorbonne Université, France)

• Giulio Tiozzo (University of Toronto, Canada)

• Matthew Tointon (University of Bristol, UK)

• Ariel Yadin (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)

• Tianyi Zheng (UC San Diego, USA)

• Fabio Zucca (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

*online talk; ** preliminary  confirmation

About the Conference

The aim of this conference is to bring together mathematicians working on groups, graphs, manifolds, etc., in the context of probability (random walks, Brownian motion), harmonic analysis, potential theory, ergodic theory, geometric group theory and related topics. The title indicates a central topic but is not to be considered the exclusive theme.

During the conference, we shall celebrate the 70th birthday of Wolfgang Woess. The topics of the conference are therefore mostly related with the work of Wolfgang Woess.

This conference may be viewed as a continuation of a series of conferences on similar topics, such as: 

• Random walks and discrete potential theory, Cortona 1997

• Random walks and geometry Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Vienna 2001

• Geometric group theory, random walks, and harmonic analysis, Cortona 2004

• ESI Educational Workshop on Discrete Probability, ESI Vienna 2006

• Groups, Graphs, and Random Walks, Cortona 2014

Conference venue

The meeting at Villa Passerini ("Il Palazzone") in Cortona, promoted by INdAM (Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica) is possible thanks to the existence of an agreement between Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and INdAM. The agreement establishes rules about the use of the Palazzone, in particular concerning the persons hosted in the Villa.

Cortona is a small town in southern Tuscany, going back Etruscan time, situated on a hill 20km North of Lake Trasimeno. Place of the meeting is the "Palazzone", a 16th century castle 2km outside of Cortona in a typical Tuscan landscape of olive and wine gardens. The Palazzone is owned by the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, who rents it to the INdAM for several meetings every year. 

Contact

The email address of the conference is 2024cortona@gmail.com.

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