Advanced Seminar on Group Theory

Lehrstuhl für Algebra und Zahlentheorie

Wintersemester 2016/17


Time/Date:
Normally we meet Thursday 16:30 - 18:00 in room 25.22. 03.73 .
For details see schedule below.
Content:
Advanced topics in group theory are discussed in short series of talks and guest lectures.
Organizers:
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Klopsch and Dr. Alejandra Garrido
Some of the individual talks are co-hosted with the Research Seminar in Pure Mathematics; they organise a substantial programme of individual research talks on a broad range of topics.
Selected talks in the Seminar Polyzyklische Gruppen for Master students may also be of interest.

Talks

Date Speaker Title
Monday 16.01.2017
Guest lecture
Time: 16:00
Room: 25.22. 00.81
Anitha Thillaisundaram
(University of Lincoln)
Automorphisms of finite p-groups
Tuesday 31.01.2017
Guest lecture
Time: 17:00
Room: 25.22. U1.72
Jone Uria Albizuri
(University of the Basque Country, Bilbao)
Various types of fractal groups
Monday 13.02.2017
Special lecture
Time: 16:00
Room: 25.22. 00.81
Oihana Garaialde Ocana
(Heinrich-Heine-Universität)
Counting cohomology algebras
Topic: Invariant random subgroups (programme)
Thursday 20.10.16 at 16:30
Room: 25.22. 03.73
Alejandra Garrido Introduction
Thursday 27.10.16 at 16:30
Room: 25.22. 03.73
Carsten Feldkamp Basics
Friday 04.11.16 at 16:30
Room: 25.22.02.81
Matteo Vannacci IRSs of groups of intermediate growth I
Thursday 17.11.16 at 16:30
Room: 25.22. 03.73
Benno Kuckuck IRSs of groups of intermediate growth II
Thursday 01.12.16 at 16:30
Room: 25.22. 03.73
Matthias Riepe Amenability
Monday 12.12.16 at 16:00
Room: 25.22. 00.83
Alejandra Garrido Random walks and a criterion for amenability
Thursday 22.12.16 at 16:30 Alejandra Garrido Second helpings of random walks and amenability
Thursday 19.01.17 at 16:30
Room: 25.22. 03.73
Matteo Vannacci A crash course on Property (T). Part I
Thursday 26.01.17 at 16:30
Room: 25.22. 03.73
Matteo Vannacci A crash course on Property (T). Part II
Thursday 02.02.17 at 16:30
Room: 25.22. 03.73
Tobias Hemmert IRSs of higher-rank Lie groups
Thursday 09.02.17 at 16:30
Room: 25.22. 03.73
Discussion session TOPIC FOR NEXT SEMESTER: p-adic analytic groups
Thursday 23.02.17 at 16:00
Room: 25.22.02.81
David Bradley-Williams IRSs of the infinite alternating group

Current seminar schedule


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