January 31 (wednesday) 14.00 - 14.45 Valérie Berthé (Paris VII), "Dendric subshifts and groups" 15.00 - 15.45 Nguyen-Bac Dang, (Orsay) , "Variation of the Hausdorff dimension of limits set and degenerating Schottky groups" 16.15 - 17.00 Bruno Duchesne (Orsay), TBA Valérie Berthé, "Dendric subshifts and groups" We discuss a family of symbolic dynamical systems that have remarkable group properties, the family of dendric words. This family includes numerous classical families of symbolic dynamical systems, among others codings of interval exchanges. Their return words form […]
Je parlerai de mes travaux avec Laura Monk, dans lesquels on s'intéresse à la plus petite valeur propre du laplacien sur une surface hyperbolique compacte, choisie aléatoirement selon la mesure de Weil—Petersson.
March 12 (Tuesday) This seminar meeting will focus on interactions between groups and random walks, and will be dedicated to our beloved mentor and colleague, Anatoly Moiseevich Vershik, who pioneered this field. 14.00 - 14.45 Cyril Houdayer (ENS Paris) ``The noncommutative factor theorem for lattices in product groups''. 15.00 - 15.45 Kunal Chawla (Princeton) "The Poisson boundary of hyperbolic groups without moment conditions". 16.15 - 17.00 Sara Brofferio (Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne), "Uniqueness of invariant measures for random homeomorphisms of the real line". ---- Cyril Houdayer […]
Je présenterai des résultats d'existence et d'unicité de traces dans l'espace des fonctions de type positif des réseaux de rang supérieur. Je mentionnerai quelques applications à la théorie des représentations unitaires et à la structure de leurs C﹡-algèbres. Ces résultats fournissent des généralisations noncommutatives de théorèmes dus à Margulis, Stuck—Zimmer et Nevo—Zimmer.
April 16 (Tuesday) For this seminar we will have the pleasure of listening to three talks: 14.00 - 14.45 Andrei Jaikin-Zapirain (UAM), "Compressed subgroups in free groups are inert" 15.00 - 15.45 Timothée Marquis (UCL), "Amalgams of rational unipotent groups and residual nilpotence". 16.15 - 17.00 Olga Kharlampovich (CUNY), "Quantification of separability of cubically convex-cocompact subgroups of RAAGs via representations". Andrei Jaikin-Zapirain "Compressed subgroups in free groups are inert". Let F be a free group. A finitely generated subgroup H is called compressed in F if it is not contained […]
An afternoon on random walks on groups. 14.00 - 14.45 Giulio Tiozzo (Toronto) ``Roots of Alexander polynomials of random positive braids''; 15.00 - 15.45 Amaury Freslon (Orsay) ``How to (badly) shuffle cards?''; 16.15 - 17.00 Charles Bordenave (Marseille) ``Strong convergence of matrix algebras and applications to random walks''. Giulio Tiozzo ``Roots of Alexander polynomials of random positive braids'' As originally observed experimentally by Dehornoy, roots of Alexander polynomials of random knots display interesting patterns. In this work, joint with N. Dunfield, we prove several results […]
Les surfaces arithmétiques formelles-analytiques sont un analogue — mélant arithmétique et analyse complexe — des voisinages tubulaires des courbes dans les surfaces. Je donnerai plusieurs applications de ces objets à des questions de finitude des groupes fondamentaux.
Koebe a démontré un résultat d'uniformisation pour les surfaces de Riemann compactes à travers les « groupes de Schottky ». Ce résultat a été étendu au cadre non archimédien par Mumford. J'expliquerai comment, en utilisant les « espaces de Berkovich », on peut mener une étude uniforme de tous ces objets et de leurs invariants associés.
I’ll talk about relations between products of Dehn twists along simple closed curves on an oriented surface F. We view these products as elements of the boundary-relative mapping class group of F. A famous example is the `lantern relation’, discovered by D. Johnson in the 70s by drawing pictures. I’ll describe how many such relations, such as the lantern, can be discovered by viewing F as a complex 1-manifold sitting inside of a complex 2-manifold as part of a `Lefschetz fibration’. Time permitting, I’ll mention higher-dimensional generalizations and open problems.