SUMMARY

This conference brings together researchers working on geometric group theory, rigidity, and dynamics, with talks on Property (T), amenable actions, high-dimensional expanders, and the Zimmer program.

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SCHEDULE

10:00 AM — 11:00 AM
Damien Gaboriau
On the Measure Equivalence classification of the Baumslag-Solitar groups BS(p, q), of the automorphism group of their associated trees, and of lcsc treeable groups.
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM
Antoine Poulin
The cost of one-relator groups
3:00 PM — 4:00 PM
Cris Connell
The Natural Flow: Recent Developments in Nonpositive Curvature
4:30 PM — 5:30 PM
Christian Gorski
Weak mixing and the semigroup of self-couplings.
10:00 AM — 11:00 AM
Miri Son
Classification SL(n,R)-actions on manifolds and Smooth Local Linearization
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM
Amos Nevo
Rough radial analysis on discrete geometric groups and the Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator.
3:00 PM — 4:00 PM
Ilya Gekhtman
Almost stationary measures and growth of injectivity radius.
4:30 PM — 5:30 PM
Anshul Adve
A Converse Theorem for Hyperbolic Surface Spectra and the Conformal Bootstrap
10:00 AM — 11:00 AM
Waltraud Lederle
Boomerang subgroups, Schreier graphs and avoiding invariant measures
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM
Michael Glasner
Character Rigidity and the Stuck-Zimmer Conjecture for Nonuniform Lattices
3:00 PM — 4:00 PM
Riddhi Shah
Twisted conjugacy classes in Lie groups.
4:30 PM — 5:30 PM
Luzie Kupffer
Bi-infinite random walk paths and geodesic flow on hyperbolic groups
10:00 AM — 11:00 AM
Shubhabrata Das
Boomerang subgroups, Schreier graphs and avoiding invariant measures
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM
Arghya Mondal
Modified GNS constructions and relative Property (T) for semidirect products.
3:00 PM — 4:00 PM
Hyein Choi
Quasi-isometric embeddings of Ramanujan complexes.
4:30 PM — 5:30 PM
Annette Karrer
Morse hierarchies of right-angled Coxeter groups and beyond
6:15 PM onwards
Conference Dinner
10:00 AM — 11:00 AM
Monika Kudlinska
L2-subgroup rigidity and Thurston norms.
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM
Inhyeok Choi
TBA
3:00 PM — 4:00 PM
Gil Goffer
TBA
4:30 PM — 5:30 PM
Ralph Spatzier
On Hyperbolic Dynamics and the Zimmer Program

Groups, Property (T), and Expansion Conference

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SPEAKERS

Anshul Adve

Hyein Choi

Inhyeok Choi

Cris Connell

Shubhabrata Das

Damien Gaboriau

Ilya Gekhtman

Michael Glasner

Gil Goffer

Christian Gorski

Annette Karrer

Monika Kudlinska

Luzie Kupffer

Waltraud Lederle

Arghya Mondal

Amos Nevo

Antoine Poulin

Riddhi Shah

Miri Son

Ralph Spatzier