Centro Internazionale per la Ricerca Matematica (C.I.R.M.)

Clay Mathematics Institute

G.N.S.A.G.A.-I.N.d.A.M.

 

 

Program of the Conference on

“Profinite and Asymptotic Group Theory”,

On the occasion of the 60th birthday of Prof. Dan Segal

Levico Terme (Trento), September 16-21, 2007

 

 

 

Monday, Sept. 17

 9:15                Opening

 9:30-10:20      Alex Lubotzky (Jerusalem): “From subgroup growth to representation growth”

10:30-11:10     Christopher Voll (Southampton): “Functional equations for zeta functions of groups and rings”

11:10               Coffee break

11:40-12:20     Laszlo Pyber (Budapest): “Quasirandom groups and product decompositions of simple

groups”

 

15:00-15:50     Slava Grigorchuk (Texas A&M): “On isoperimetric functions of infinitely presented

groups”

16:00-16:30     Dan Segal (Oxford): “Problems that stumped me”

16:30               Coffee break

17:00-17:30     Dessislava Kochloukova (Campinas): “Embedding homological properties of

metabelian discrete groups: the general case”

17:30-18:00     Thomas Weigel (Milano): “Commensurators and hereditarily just-infinite

profinite groups”

 

Tuesday, Sept. 18

 9:30-10:20      Fabrizio Catanese (Bayreuth): “Local fundamental groups of complex surfaces”

10:30-11:10     Benjamin Klopsch (Royal Holloway): “Representation growth of compact p-adic Lie

groups”

11:10               Coffee break

11:40-12:20     Miklos Abert (Chicago): “On the dynamics of profinite actions”

 

15:00-15:50     Aner Shalev (Jerusalem): “Characters, walks and words”

16:00-16:30     Andrea Lucchini (Brescia): “Subgroups of solvable groups with non-zero Moebius

function”

16:30               Coffee break

17:00-17:30     Luis Ribes (Carleton): “The topological weight in profinite spaces and applications to groups”

17:30-18:00     Pavel Zalesski (Brasilia): “Virtually free pro-p groups and p-adic representations”

18:00-18:30     Poster Session

Wednesday, Sept. 19

  9:30-10:20     Martin Bridson (London): “Residually free groups”

10:30-11:10     Erika Damian (Brescia): “The generation of the augmentation ideal”

11:10               Coffee break

11:40-12:20     Andrei Jaikin-Zapirain (Madrid): “On the p-gradient of finitely presented groups”

 

14:00               Excursion to Panarotta 2002 (by bus till Vetriolo and then on foot to the top of the mountain)

20:00               Conference dinner

 

Thursday, Sept. 20

  9:30-10:20     Nigel Boston (Madison): “Random pro-p groups and random Galois groups”

10:30-11:10     Robert Bieri (Frankfurt): “Pushing skeletons to infinity”

11:10               Coffee break

11:40-12:20     John Wilson (Oxford): “Characterizations of solubility for finite groups”

 

15:00-15:50     Nikolay Nikolov (London): “Discrete images and subgroups of profinite groups”

16:00-16:30     Chris Brookes (Cambridge): “Representation theory of Iwasawa algebras”

16:30               Coffee break

17:00-17:30     Ingrid Bauer (Bayreuth): “Fundamental groups of quotient manifolds”

17:30-18:00     Avinoam Mann (Jerusalem): “Polynomial growth in infinitely generated groups”

18:30               Football match

 

Friday, Sept. 21

  9:30-10:20     Martin Kassabov (Cornell): “Cartesian products as profinite completions and

 representation growth of groups”

10:30-11:10     Yiftach Barnea (London): “Pro-p groups with few normal subgroups”

11:10               Coffee break

11:40-12:20     Charles Leedham-Green (London): “p-groups and pro-p-groups. To infinity and back”