ESI Profinite Groups: Schedule

further activities

Erwin Schrödinger Institute (ESI) Boltzmann Lecture Hall

Mo 8.12.2008
09.45J Schwermer (Director of ESI)Opening
10.00Jean-Pierre SERRE (Paris)Independence of l-adic representations
11.00Andrei RAPINCHUK (Virginia)p-adic techniques in the theory of Lie groups and differential geometry
15.00Helmut KOCH (HU Berlin)The Galois group of the maximal p-extension of an algebraic number field with given ramification points
16.00Ido EFRAT (Be'er Sheva)On the descending p-central sequence of absolute Galois groups
17.30Pavel SHUMYATSKY (Brasilia)On pro-p groups admitting a fixed-point-free automorphism
Tue 9.12.2008
09.00Alex LUBOTZKY (Jerusalem)Discrete and profinite presentations of finite simple groups
10.00Aner SHALEV (Jerusalem)Words; Ore's conjecture and random walks
11.30Dan SEGAL (Oxford)Which verbal subgroups are closed
15.00Andrea LUCCHINI (Padova)Profinite groups in which the subgroup zeta function and the probabilistic zeta function coincide
16.00Nigel BOSTON (Madison and Dublin)Random p-groups
17.30John S. WILSON (Oxford)Exchange Theorems
We 10.12.2008
09.00Luis RIBES (Ottawa)Wreath products and classical subgroup theorems for abstract and profinite groups
10.00Lior BARY-SOROKER (Tel Aviv)Quasifree subgroups of quasifree groups
11.30Yiftach BARNEA (London)Abstract commensurators of profinite groups
15.00Marco BOGGI (Paris)The congruence subgroup property for the hyperelliptic modular group
16.00Pierre LOCHAK (Paris)Automorphisms of profinite Teichmueller groups
17.30Peter SYMONDS (Manchester)On the Cohomology of a pro-p Group considered as an Abstract Group
Thu 11.12.2008
09.00Dessislava KOCHLOUKOVA (Campinas)Pro-p limit groups
10.00Aline G.S. PINTO (Brasilia)Normal subgroups of profinite groups of non-negative deficiency
11.30Thomas WEIGEL (Milano Bicocca)Profinite groups acting on pro-p trees
15.00Karl LORENSEN (Altoona)Good groups and pro-p good groups
20 ±Heurigen evening
Fr 12.12.2008
09.00Benjamin STEINBERG (Ottawa)Symbolic dynamics; projective profinite groups and free profinite monoids (talk delivered by J. Almeida)
10.00Jorge ALMEIDA (Porto)Tameness in pseudovarieties of groups
11.30Peter PLAUMANN (Erlangen)Boolean loops
15.00Gunther BERGAUER (Wien)2-dimensional profinite complexes
17.00Problem session
Mo 15.12.2008
10.00Andrei RAPINCHUK_ (Virginia)On almost 1-generation of the congruence kernel
We 17.12.2008
10.00Lior BARY-SOROKER_ (Tel Aviv)Projective pairs of profinite groups
11.00Avinoam MANN (Jerusalem)Positively generated groups and their zeta function
Thu 18.12.2008
10.00Efim ZELMANOV (San Diego)Self-similar Lie Algebras
11.00Andrzej ZUK (Paris)Automata groups
Fr 19.12.2008
11.00Moshe JARDEN (Tel Aviv)The absolute Galois groups of semilocal fields

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Further activities

(We 10th 16.15 ) D Segal, "Words and groups", Math Inst Nordbergstraße 15 C209

(Thu 11th 17) J-P.Serre, ESI lecture hall, "Variation with p of the number of solutions mod p of polynomial equations" and a reception at ESI afterwards

(Fr 12th 17) Problemsession

(We 17th 16.15 ) E Zelmanov, "Infinite Groups", Math Inst Nordbergstraße 15 C209

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