Randomness and Geometry Seminar

January 11 - June 30, 2024, The Fields Institute

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Please join us via zoom at https://zoom.us/j/97848975550

Schedule

Past Talks

Thursday, June 27th, 2024
10:00 to 11:30	Academic Scenes Presents: Mathopoly Location:Fields Institute, Room 210
15:00 to 16:30	Amenability of groups and group actions \| Part 2 Maksym Chaudkhari (University of Texas) Location:Fields Institute, Room 309

Tuesday, June 25th, 2024
10:00 to 11:30	Random groups and the cubical fixed-point property part 2 Zackary Munro Location:Fields Institute, Room 210
15:00 to 16:30	Amenability of groups and group actions \| Part 1 Maksym Chaudkhari (University of Texas) Location:Fields Institute, Room 309

Monday, June 24th, 2024
10:00 to 11:30	Random groups and the cubical fixed-point property Zackary Munro Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, June 21st, 2024
13:30 to 15:00	Interesting examples of right-angled Coxeter groups (and right-angled Artin groups) \| Part 2 Annette Karrer Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Wednesday, June 19th, 2024
10:00 to 11:30	The Cannon Conjecture Indira Chatterji Location:Fields Institute, Room 210
14:00 to 15:30	Interesting examples of right-angled Coxeter groups (and right-angled Artin groups) \| Part 1 Annette Karrer Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Monday, June 17th, 2024
14:15 to 15:45	Combinatorial isoperimetric inequality for the free factor complex Radhika Gupta Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Friday, June 7th, 2024
10:00 to 11:30	A strong Tits alternative for Out(Fn) \| Lecture 4 Camille Horbez, CNRS / Université Paris-Saclay Location:Fields Institute, Room 210
14:00 to 15:30	Geodesic currents on surfaces and beyond \| Lecture 4 Didac Martinez Granado, University of Luxembourg Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Thursday, June 6th, 2024
10:00 to 11:30	A strong Tits alternative for Out(Fn) \| Lecture 3 Camille Horbez, CNRS / Université Paris-Saclay Location:Fields Institute, Room 210
12:00 to 13:00	Spaces with walls, and group actions on nonpositively curved spaces Harry Petyt Location:Fields Institute, Room 210
14:00 to 15:30	Geodesic currents on surfaces and beyond \| Lecture 3 Didac Martinez Granado, University of Luxembourg Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Wednesday, June 5th, 2024
12:00 to 13:00	Approximating hyperbolic lattices by cubulations Eduardo Reyes Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Tuesday, June 4th, 2024
10:00 to 11:30	A strong Tits alternative for Out(Fn) \| Lecture 2 Camille Horbez, CNRS / Université Paris-Saclay Location:Fields Institute, Room 210
12:00 to 13:00	Marked length spectrum rigidity on hyperbolic groups Eduardo Reyes Location:Fields Institute, Room 210
14:00 to 15:30	Geodesic currents on surfaces and beyond \| Lecture 2 Didac Martinez Granado, University of Luxembourg Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Monday, June 3rd, 2024
10:00 to 11:30	A strong Tits alternative for Out(Fn) \| Lecture 1 Camille Horbez, CNRS / Université Paris-Saclay Location:Fields Institute, Room 210
14:00 to 15:30	Geodesic currents on surfaces and beyond \| Lecture 1 Didac Martinez Granado, University of Luxembourg Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Thursday, May 23rd, 2024
10:00 to 11:00	Taut surgeries on curves and shortest geodesics Macarena Arenas, University of Cambridge Location:Fields Institute, Room 210
14:00 to 15:00	Spectral decomposition and Siegel-Veech transforms for strata: The case of marked tori (online) Jayadev Athreya, University of Washington Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Tuesday, May 21st, 2024
10:00 to 11:00	Pivoting technique for strongly irreducible and proximal products of independent matrices Axel Peneau, University of Rennes Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Thursday, May 9th, 2024
10:00 to 11:00	Boundary theory and ergodic cocycles Corentin Le-Bars (Weizmann Institute) Location:Fields Institute, Room 210
14:00 to 15:00	Distribution of dense lattice orbits in homogeneous spaces Pratyush Sarkar, University of California at San Diego Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Tuesday, April 30th, 2024
10:00 to 11:30	Patterson-Sullivan theory for hyperbolic spaces (Part 3) Inhyeok Choi, KIAS and Fields Institute Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Monday, April 29th, 2024
10:00 to 11:30	Patterson-Sullivan theory for hyperbolic spaces (Part 2) Inhyeok Choi, KIAS and Fields Institute Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Thursday, April 25th, 2024
10:00 to 11:30	Patterson-Sullivan theory for hyperbolic spaces (Part 1) Inhyeok Choi, KIAS and Fields Institute Location:Fields Institute, Room 210
14:00 to 15:00	Hyperbolic commensurated subgroups Mahan Mj (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Thursday, April 18th, 2024
10:00 to 11:30	Some nice theorems in percolation (Part 4) Christian Gorski, Fields Institute Location:Fields Institute, Room 210
14:00 to 15:00	The space of co-geodesic currents of a hyperbolic group Didac Martinez Granado, University of Luxembourg Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Tuesday, April 16th, 2024
10:00 to 11:30	Some nice theorems in percolation (Part 3) Christian Gorski, Fields Institute Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Thursday, April 11th, 2024
10:00 to 11:30	Some nice theorems in percolation (Part 2) Christian Gorski, Fields Institute Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Tuesday, April 9th, 2024
10:00 to 11:30	Some nice theorems in percolation (Part 1) Christian Gorski, Fields Institute Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Wednesday, March 27th, 2024
14:30 to 15:30	The Conformal Dimension and Minimality of Stochastic Objects Wenbo Li, Peking University Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Thursday, March 21st, 2024
14:00 to 15:00	Soficity, Amenability, and LEF-ness for topological full groups Xin Ma, Fields Institute Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Tuesday, March 12th, 2024
12:00 to 13:00	Distribution of Sierpinski Carpet Polynomial Matings Caroline Davis, Indiana University Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Thursday, March 7th, 2024
14:00 to 15:00	Counting arcs of the same type Marie Trin, Université de Rennes Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Thursday, February 29th, 2024
14:00 to 15:00	The Poisson boundary of hyperbolic groups without moment conditions Kunal Chawla, Princeton University Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Tuesday, February 27th, 2024
12:00 to 13:00	Topological versions of Kesten's theorem and measurable lamplighter groups Maksym Chaudkhari (University of Texas) Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Thursday, February 22nd, 2024
14:00 to 15:00	Generalized pseudo-Anosov Maps and Hubbard Trees Mariam Alhawaj, University of Toronto Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Thursday, February 15th, 2024
14:00 to 15:00	Finite-State Machines and Intrinsic Metrics on Horospheres in Hyperbolic Groups Daniel Levitin, University of Wisconsin-Madison Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Thursday, February 8th, 2024
14:00 to 15:00	Generating stable subgroups quickly Abdul Zalloum, University of Toronto. Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Thursday, February 1st, 2024
14:00 to 15:00	Counting and equidistribution for countable Markov shifts with applications to cusped Hitchin representations Harrison Bray, George Mason University Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Tuesday, January 30th, 2024
12:00 to 13:00	Geometrical applications of thermodynamic formalism for hyperbolic systems: Unique quasi-ergodicity of the hororyclic flow (Part 2) Pablo Carrasco, University of Minas Gerais Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Thursday, January 25th, 2024
14:00 to 15:00	The Poisson boundary of wreath products Eduardo Silva, École Normale Supérieure Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024
12:00 to 13:00	Geometrical applications of thermodynamic formalism for hyperbolic systems: Unique quasi-ergodicity of the hororyclic flow (Part 1) Pablo Carrasco, University of Minas Gerais Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Tuesday, January 16th, 2024
12:00 to 13:00	A Central limit theorem for random walks on horospherical products of Gromov hyperbolic spaces Keivan Mallahi-Karai, Constructor University, Bremen Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

Thursday, January 11th, 2024
14:00 to 15:00	Geometry and randomness of Coxeter groups Jason Behrstock, Lehman College, CUNY Location:Fields Institute, Room 210

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