These learning seminars are organized as a part of the IHP thematic trimester "Groups acting on fractals".
Our goal of these seminars is to foster discussion between junior participants through regular weekly meetings.
Resources and references from each seminar will be uploaded to this site.
The below schedule is coarsely equivalent to the one found on the IHP website and included for ease of reference.
Speaker Schedule
Pseudo-Anosovs via geodesic laminations
Presenter: Michael Kopreski
Combining Kleinian Groups (detailed notes)
Presenter: Sami Douba
Fary Milnor in CAT(0) spaces (detailed notes)
Presenter: Shaked Bader
Square tiled surfaces
Presenter: Paige Helms
Finite rigidity and automorphisms of the non separating curve complex
Presenter: Rodrigo De Pool
Boundary theory and non-positive curvature
Presenter: Corentin Lebars
The geometry of contracting elements
Presenter: Xabier Legaspi
Time and Location
20 and 22 April
Room: Hermite (1) Darboux (2)
03 and 04 May
Room: Darboux(1) Hermite (2)
10 and 11 May
Room: Hermite
18 and 20 May
Room: Classroom 01 (1st floor)
07 June
Room: Darboux
10 and 14 June
Room: Darboux
15 June
Room: Darboux
Each speaker will have one blackboard or 15 minutes (whichever they use first) to share with us an idea they've been contemplating during the first month of the trimester. Wine and snacks will be served.
Talks should be informal, and can run the range of subjects: expositing a known result that delights you, introducing an open problem you're grappling with, sharing the joys of your latest progress, inviting us to the mysteries of a particular example, alerting us to a new paper you're excited about.
Part 2: IHP 2nd floor (16:00 - 18:30) Friday 17 June
Part 1: IHP 2nd floor (16:00 - 18:00) Friday 13 May
The schedule of minicourses is kept up to date on the IHP main schedule (here) . We summarize specific information here.
Minicourse 1: Mladen Bestvina
Projection Complexes and Applications to MCG (19Apr@2pm, 20Apr@2pm, 22Apr@10am)
Minicourse 2: Tianyi Zheng
Random walks on Grigorchuk groups and growth estimates (10May@2pm, 11May@2pm, 13May@10am)
Minicourse 3: Volodia Nekrashevych
Hyperbolic groupoids (20May@10am, 23May@2pm, 24May@10am)
Minicourse 4: Denis Osin
Applications of descriptive set theory in geometric group theory (24May@2pm, 25May@2pm)
Minicourse 5: John Mackay
Conformal dimension and hyperbolic groups (08June@2pm, 14June@2pm, 15June@2pm)