tba
The topic this semester is 'profinite rigidity', a buzz term for studying an infinite group by means of its finite quotients.The seminar will be organized as a reading course, with interspersed talks. The detailed programm will follow soon, where our main references are listed below.
References for the reading course:
Groups acting on rooted trees
Research talks
Bass-Serre theory
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