Swiss Doctoral Program in Mathematics

Minicourses

On compact and locally compact groups (2h)

1. Some algebraic properties of compact groups
   Dan Segal (Oxford University)
2. A metric panorama of locally compact groups
Pierre de la Harpe (University of Geneva)

Approximate groups and their applications (3h)
Emmanuel Breuillard (Université d'Orsay)

Grigorchuk groups and generalizations (5h)

1. Grigorchuk groups, smooth one-dimensional dynamics and more... 1 2 3
   Andres Navas (University Santiago de Chile)
2. Iterated monodromy groups of the tent map Volodymyr Nekrashevych (Texas A&M University)
3. Representation growth of branch groups
   Laurent Bartholdi (University of Goettingen)

1. Full groups in Cantor dynamics, Borel dynamics and ergodic theory
   Konstantin Medynets (US Naval Academy)
2. Topological full groups of etale groupoids
Hiroki Matui (Chiba University)

3. On simple amenable groups
Kate Juschenko (Vanderbilt University)

Decision problems, non-positive curvature, and profinite completions (5h)
Martin Bridson (Oxford University)
with an introduction Profinite rigidity and flexibility
by Alan Reid (University of Texas);
with an appendix Applications of quasi-morphisms
by Koji Fujiwara (Kyoto University)

The price of accommodation and full board (to be paid at the conference site)

at the Hôtel Les Sources (***) (limited number of rooms available)
in a double room: CHF 140 per person per night
in a single room: CHF 163 per person per night

at the Eurotel Victoria (****)
in a double room: CHF 175 per person per night
in a single room: CHF 198 per person per night

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