Thematic program – ICMAT

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Announcement of Thematic program on

L2-INVARIANTS AND THEIR ANALOGUES IN POSITIVE CHARACTERISTIC
February 19 — June 15, 2018
Instituto de Ciencias Matematicas (ICMAT), Madrid

This thematic program will be devoted to recent developments on the theory of L2-invariants. This program simultaneously seeks to train a new generation of researchers and to give the leading researchers an opportunity to work together in an exciting research environment.

The program main activities will be:

  • 2 weeks of introductory mini-courses (February 26 – March 9)
  • Several week-long advanced courses (see the webpage for courses scheduled so far)
  • Regular seminars
  • A closing workshop (June 4 – June 8)

Detailed information about the program can be found on the webpage:
https://www.icmat.es/rt/l2invariants2018/index.php

If you are interested in attending to any part of the program, please register on the webpage indicating your preferences:
https://www.icmat.es/rt/l2invariants2018/registration.php

We have some limited funding to cover the stay/travel of some participants. We will greatly appreciate if you can cover your own expenses. We will funding mostly early career researchers, minorities and long term visitors.

THE DEADLINE TO APPLY FOR A SUPPORT IS SEPTEMBER 22, 2017. WE WILL REPLY YOU DURING OCTOBER.

WE HAVE EXTENDED THE DEADLINE UNTIL NOVEMBER 15, 2017. THOSE WHO APPLIED FOR A FINANCIAL SUPPORT BEFORE OCTOBER 1 WILL RECEIVE A REPLY DURING OCTOBER. [modified 04 Oct 2017]

The organizers

Conference announcement: GAGTA-11 in Bilbao, June 26-July 7

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Dear All,

Here is an announcement for GAGTA-11: please circulate it in your favourite mailing lists.

With best regards,

Ilya

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GAGTA-11, the 11th GAGTA Conference (Geometric and Asymptotic Group Theory and Applications) will take place in Bilbao

26 JUNE – 30 JUNE 2017 (Mini-courses, young researchers and contributed talks)

and

3 JULY – 7 JULY 2017 (Plenary talks)

Please, see the conference website for more information:

https://sites.google.com/site/gagta2017/home

REGISTRATION:

Registration is now open and you can register by filling in the form here:

https://sites.google.com/site/gagta2017/registration

ACCOMMODATION:

We offer the rate of 200 euro for 1 week and 300 euro for 2 weeks stay at the Miguel Unamuno Residence (rooms are similar to a 3* hotel), see for more information

https://sites.google.com/site/gagta2017/registration [2]

If you prefer to book your own accommodation, we advise that you do so as soon as possible as the availability is limited due to the Bilbao BBK Live music festival,

http://bilbaobbklive.com/

FINANCIAL SUPPORT:

There is some funding available for graduate students and early career researchers. THE DEADLINE TO APPLY FOR FUNDING IS THE 15TH OF MAY.

If you would like to apply for support, please, fill in the form here

https://sites.google.com/site/gagta2017/support [3]

CONTRIBUTED TALKS

If you wish to give a contributed talk (during the week of June 26 –
June 30), please fill in the registration form indicating your title and
abstract.

Looking forward to meeting you in Bilbao,

The organising committee

Visita profesor Sela UPV/EHU

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Dear All,

We are very pleased to announced that Prof. Zlil Sela (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) is visiting the Department of Mathematics of the UPV/EHU. He is going to give a graduate course in geometric group theory. The course is going to be two-weeks long starting next week, i.e. the weeks of January, 16 and January, 23.

We will meet Monday-Wednesday-Friday from 11.00 to 12.30.

Everybody is welcome! _LIMITED_ support for graduate students is available.

All the best,

Ilya

Curso de doctorado de Antonio Viruel en Leioa (Bizkaia)

Nov ’16
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Antonio ViruelEstimados compañeros de la Red Ibérica en Teoría de grupos,

os reenvío la información de abajo de parte de Gustavo Fernández Alcober,

un saludo,
Conchita

CURSO DE DOCTORADO «ACCIONES DE GRUPOS SOBRE VARIEDADES». 14-17  NOVIEMBRE, UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO.

PROFESOR: Antonio Viruel (Universidad de Málaga)

RESUMEN: Este curso pretende ser una primera introducción a las  técnicas de los llamados grupos de transformaciones. Veremos cómo la  geometría y la teoría de grupos se complementan cuando consideramos  grupos actuando sobre variedades, de modo que si un grupo G actúa de  manera efectiva sobre una variedad M, las propiedades geométricas de M  pueden leerse en G del mismo modo que las propiedades algebraicas de G  pueden leerse en M. Ejemplos de estas situaciones son la conjetura del  rango y las acciones libres sobre productos de esferas, o las  conjeturas de estructura sobre los grupos de difeomorfismos de una  variedad.

LUGAR: Seminario de Matemáticas. Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología.  Leioa (Bizkaia)

HORARIO: Lunes, 14 de noviembre: 11:30-13:30
Martes, 15: 14:00-16:00
Miércoles, 16: 11:30-13:30
Jueves, 17: 14:00-16:00

Curso de Charles Eaton en Valencia, 9-11 febrero

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Charles EatonEstimados compañeros:
Los próximos días 9-11 de febrero Charles Eaton (University of Manchester) impartirá un curso en la Universitat de València sobre «Basic algebras of blocks».
La duración aproximada del curso será de 4 horas y media.
Los interesados en asistir al curso pueden ponerse en contacto conmigo (joan.tent@uv.es) para cualquier información al respecto.

Joan Tent

Curso «Representaciones del grupo simétrico» en Valencia 19-21 octubre

Oct ’15Oct
1921

Eugenio GiannelliEstimados compañeros:

Los próximos días 19-21 de octubre, Eugenio Giannelli (T.U. Kaiserlslautern) impartirá un curso en la Universitat de València sobre Teoría de Representaciones del Grupo Simétrico. La duración aproximada del curso será de 4 horas y media.

Resumen:

The aim of this short course is to define and characterize the simple modules for
the symmetric groups in both the ordinary and the modular setting. This will be
done via the classical combinatorial approach, used by Gordon James. The main
reference for these lectures is the book “The Representation Theory of Symmetric
Groups” by Gordon James.

Los interesados en asistir al curso pueden ponerse en contacto con Joan Tent (joan.tent@uv.es) o Carolina Vallejo (carolina.vallejo@uv.es) para cualquier información al respecto.

Un saludo,

Joan Tent

 

Measured group theory winter school, Feb 1 – 12, 2016, ESI, Vienna

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Estimados compañeros,

os envío esta información por si es de vuestro interés,

Un saludo,

Conchita

Please distribute this among young researchers who may be interested.
A poster is attached.

This is an advertisement of a winter school in measured group theory,
with the dates February 1 – 12, 2016, at the Erwin Schrödinger
Institute, Vienna, Austria, organized by Miklos Abert, Goulnara
Arzhantseva, Damien Gaboriau, Thomas Schick and Andreas Thom.

The school is a part of the thematic program ‘Measured group theory’
held at ESI January 18 — March 18, 2016. See
www.uni-math.gwdg.de/schick/ESI16/esi16_1.html  for details. The
program for the school is:

Week 1 (Feb 1 – 5):

  • Gabor Elek: Sofic groups
  • Yair Glasner: Spaces of subgroups and IRS
  • Andrei Jaikin-Zapirain: An algebraic proof of the strong Atiyah conjecture for free groups
  • Jesse Peterson: Character rigidity
  • Brandon Seward: Sofic and Rokhlin entropy

Week 2 (Feb 8 – 12):

  • Tsachik Gelander: Asymptotic invariants of lattices in Lie groups
  • Francois le Maitre: Full groups, topological rank and cost
  • Narutaka Ozawa: Noncommutative real algebraic geometry: Kazhdan’s property (T) and Connes’s embedding conjecture
  • Todor Tsankov: Automorphism groups and their actions
  • Robin Tucker-Drob: Borel and measured equivalence relations and trees

If you have any questions about the program, contact one of the
organizers.

Applications to the school should be sent to creinha@uni-math.gwdg.de.
If you are a young researcher, also ask a senior researcher (typically
your advisor) to send a short reference email to the same address. The
selected participants will be provided some financial support to cover
their local expenses. In exceptional cases, some financial support for
travel will also be provided.

The application email should contain the following information,
preferably following the format below:

  • Your name:
  •  Email:
  • Affiliation:
  • Research topic:
  • Your advisor’s name (if you are a student):
  • Weeks of the school you are applying to:
  • Do you need per diem and/or travel support:

Best regards,

the organizers

Poster: poster_MGT_school_ESI_2016

Un curso de Frieder Ladisch

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Estimados compañeros,

Los días 15-19 de junio en el ICMAT (Madrid) se celebrará un curso de
Frieder Ladisch sobre el grupo de Brauer-Clifford. Se adjunta un resumen
del curso.

Los interesados en asistir al curso pueden escribir a Andrei Jaikin
(andrei.jaikin@uam.es)

Para información sobre el alojamiento en el campus de Cantoblanco se
puede consultar http://www.resa.es/Residencias/Erasmo [1]

Un saludo,
Andrei Jaikin