Abelian splittings of pro-p right angled Artin groups
The goal of this seminar is to give an introduction to Bass-Serre theory, a branch of modern geometric group theory which studies structural properties of groups by exploiting their action on trees. See the programme for more details.
Main references:
Amalgams and fixed points
The tree of SL2 over a local field I
The tree of SL2 over a local field II
Profinite graphs and pro-p trees
Pro-p groups acting on pro-p trees
Totally disconnected locally compact groups
Mixed Topics
Word Growth in Groups
Bass-Serre Theory and Profinite Analogues
p-Adic analytic pro-p groups
Invariant random subgroups
Probabilistic methods in group theory
Buildings