Discrete group actions in geometry and topology

Borel Seminar 2014 - Swiss Doctoral Program in Mathematics





Les Diablerets, Switzerland

30 june - 4 July 2014



Conference pictures: Borel1 and Borel2


Organized by: Michelle Bucher (Geneva), Ruth Kellerhals (Fribourg) and John Parker (Durham).
Contact: borel2014@unige.ch

Minicourses

Jeffrey Danciger (Texas) - François Guéritaud (Lille 1) - Fanny Kassel (Lille 1)
Complete constant-curvature spacetimes in dimension 3

Tsachik Gelander (Weizman Institute)
Invariant Random Subgroups in rank one and higher rank Lie groups

Alessandra Iozzi (ETHZ)
Bounded cohomology and rigidity

Misha Kapovich (UC Davis)
Kleinian groups and hyperbolic manifolds

Main speakers

Gérard Besson (Grenoble)

Marc Burger (ETHZ)

Pierre De La Harpe (Genève)

Martin Deraux (Grenoble)

Vincent Emery (EPFL)

Elisha Falbel (Jussieu)

Julien Paupert (Arizona State)

Anna Pratoussevich (Liverpool)

Jean Raimbault (MPIM Bonn)

Andrew Ranicki (Edinburgh)